As I rode my bike past the recycling dropoff station yesterday, there was a woman unloading her SUV. The engine was running as she worked. So that "individual choice" framework of behavioural change is working as most of us would have predicted.
There is probably only 11 days' supply of petrol confirmed in the country, with a few more weeks' topup on the way. After that we are pretty likely to get a Dear John letter from one or more suppliers.
But there's no messaging, no leadership coming from the Beehive. No admission that the trajectory they put us on made us that much more vulnerable to the intense level of disruption that is about to hit, and no bold announcement of concrete steps to cut our dependence. I think voters will see through it and turf them out for their gross mismanagement, but we have six months of this shitshow to endure until that happens. #NZPol
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/24/the-three-tankers-that-hold-nzs-last-confirmed-oil-supplies/
Phil Stevens :tinoflag:
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