making it harder for young families to buy in the communities they live and work in
Yay let's all spend $100 a week commuting to work and back.
Looking forward to dying from heatstroke in 50 years time from global warming due to increased and prolonged reliance on fossil fuels.
National will do everything they can to sabotage cheap petrol. The Marsden Point Refinery will never function again, and National supports the Russia Sanctions Act, making sure we never buy petrol from the #2 producer in the world, meanwhile #1 producer (Saudi Arabia) increases the price. India and China will continue using diesel and oil as usual and here in NZ the yuppie elite will drive their Teslas, and using fossil fuels will be a dirty poor people thing. It'll mostly be poor people like me who can't buy a new $15,000 EV with 70 battery health who will be driving petrol cars 5 years from now.
I'll be demonised for my carbon sins.
Luxon says climate change is a fact and it's caused by us, so it's only a matter of time before a fanatical nutjob proposes a ban on natural gas. There is nobody advocating for continued use of fossil fuel, they all want it gone, just a matter of how long.
China will continue to use the Power Of Siberia pipeline and use quantities of gas that we cannot imagine, but kiwis will be told that having a bbq is bad, and driving an LPG forklift is bad. In Christchurch we had very strong winds yesterday and within a few hours of the government alert system pinging our phones, Redditors were speculating that the Nor West wind is proof of climate change.
If people can afford the latest technologies that's great, but I'm poor and I want to continue using fossil fuels especially when my rent is so high. What if it's the weekend and 1 of the other 11 tenants is using the only washing machine and dryer? How do I wash my laundry if I don't have a petrol car to drive to the laundromat? I can't believe the greenies are going on about housing trusts and not taking about ridiculous zoning and regulations that prevent us from having a world class city. I can't cook where I live, I can't do my laundry. The washing machine is constantly breaking and playing up. It'll just lock a person's clothes and not open for 3 days. It's a disaster. So until I have my own apartment with a bike shed and laundry, I'm probably going to need fossil fuels.
There won't be any significant change, and they will become bigger spenders than Labour when it comes to prisons. Supposedly the prison system is at maximum capacity and it's just not popular to build more prisons (even though we should). I'd be in favour of National if their policy included building something like the Black Dolphin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dolphin_Prison) but then having normal prisons for people who commit minor offenses, like swearing on the phone or not paying their parking fines.
As far as I'm concerned Luxon is just a twink who takes it up the can. He's not the far-right over-zealous Christian bigot that Reddit says he is. He's not going to make any significant changes - and his policies will cost the tax payer more. How many prisons will they need to build to keep people locked up? This is the question that nobody is asking. What is the cost to the tax payer? And what will they do as an incentive to not ram raid, not join gangs and not commit crime? The minimum wage isn't enough to live on. If I suddenly have to buy a new car I'll have to ask my folks for some money. National and Labour are crap parties and I don't understand why anyone votes for them, they have destroyed the economy, made everything unaffordable.
If you don't go to uni at 17, get a degree by age 20, get into middle management in your 20s, then you'll just never own a new Mazda or a house. Even if you do everything perfectly, at best you can own a small townhouse and have 2 children by the time you're 40. The quality of life keeps going down, even for the upper middle class. We stress out and work hard just for basics. This country is a hellhole.