TOP Party one to watch in this election

[SBQ]

Take a bow New Zealand, 82% of our electricity generation is from renewable sources! That’s extraordinary!

Meanwhile the worlds biggest polluter - China - will burn 2.3 billion tonnes of coal this year.

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‘The electricity sector in New Zealand uses mainly renewable energy, such as hydropower, geothermal power and increasingly wind energy. As of 2019, 82% of electricity is generated from renewable sources, making New Zealand one of the countries with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation.‘

It's virtually impossible to get NZ to 100% renewable. At 82%, this is a very respectable figure but I believe wind generation would provide very little to the grid. What will push us to over 90% is getting more and more homes on solar PV. Even better with battery storage.

Now keeping with NZ Top - i'll agree with justakiwi that a vote for this party is a waste of a vote.

[Logen Ninefingers]

It's virtually impossible to get NZ to 100% renewable. At 82%, this is a very respectable figure but I believe wind generation would provide very little to the grid. What will push us to over 90% is getting more and more homes on solar PV. Even better with battery storage.

Now keeping with NZ Top - i'll agree with justakiwi that a vote for this party is a waste of a vote.

TOP are polling at 1% according to tonights One News poll. They are not even close.

(Most of the electricity in China comes from coal, which accounted for 62% of the electricity generation mix in 2021).

[Panda-NZ-]

It's virtually impossible to get NZ to 100% renewable. At 82%, this is a very respectable figure but I believe wind generation would provide very little to the grid. What will push us to over 90% is getting more and more homes on solar PV. Even better with battery storage.

Now keeping with NZ Top - i'll agree with justakiwi that a vote for this party is a waste of a vote.

Or pumped hydro which labour is most supportive of (which is a nationwide battery).. though costs do need to be kept under control.

[SBQ]

Or pumped hydro which labour is most supportive of (which is a nationwide battery).. though costs do need to be kept under control.

In the province of BC (Canada's most western province), BC Hydro is building the Site C damn which initially had a budget cost of $6.6B, now it's currently at $16B. Lots of environmental protests from the First Nations, numerous tax payer funded assessments, the delays pushed the construction into cost over-runs. Lots of criticism in the build as noted here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_C_dam

In my view, BC Hydro is planning for the future and despite how the critics say the electrical generation would be exported, they fail to believe that building reserve capacity prevents a crisis in the province. No more than ever, residents there can enjoy charging their EVs, building 500,000 homes in the next 50 years, and not be concerned that BC Hydro will lack the supply of electricity.

Unfortunately NZ does not have that kind of ambition. We have a strong Green Party (or those in gov't) that will squash any thought of building another dam (because their motive is to want people to live in tents and walk in the cold winter rain to work and back). Real solutions require big projects and BC's Site C dam is one of them.

[dln]

Have you been to Onslow?
No one will give a sh1t about that being flooded.

[Aaron]

Looks like my vote will be a wasted one. But as National and Labour won't touch capital gains tax, income testing national super or lower the inflation target to +-1% does it really matter.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other...cf2fbd381&ei=9

All the voters are after is how much will National offer them with their tax policy today, then they can go back to complaining about the underfunded health system and potholes.

[Logen Ninefingers]

Looks like my vote will be a wasted one. But as National and Labour won't touch capital gains tax, income testing national super or lower the inflation target to +-1% does it really matter.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other...cf2fbd381&ei=9

All the voters are after is how much will National offer them with their tax policy today, then they can go back to complaining about the underfunded health system and potholes.

I personally don’t think tax cuts are a great idea when we’ve got a revenue problem, whether it be tax cuts to GST on fruit and vegetables or whatever. We get these parties claiming they need to help people enduring a ‘cost of living crisis’, yet giving people more incentive and ability to spend only exacerbates inflation. Presumably *Labour* announce these kinds of tax cuts close to an election to get people to vote for them. The main reason we need more revenue at present is because of the huge reckless spending Robertson has presided over.

Interesting to see you banging on about the health system when the past 6 years have proven that the problem isn’t the vast amounts of money being thrown at it, it’s where the money is going that is the issue. Labour have squandered billions on mergers, extra bureaucrats, a new separatist ‘Maori Health Authority’….none of it has improved outcomes for New Zealanders. Likewise we’ve seen vast waste with the polytech mega-merger, the tv / radio merger that never went ahead, the Auckland cycle bridge that was never built, Auckland light rail that never proceeded and countless other bureaucratic boondoggles. Plus $500 million of expired RAT tests that now must be chucked away. All of this money would have paid for quite a few potholes to be fixed, I am sure. The Left see this vast waste and their response is “and now we must have a wealth tax”. Quite extraordinary really, they never hold Labour to account, just continue with the myopia they are known for.

[Aaron]

I personally don’t think tax cuts are a great idea when we’ve got a revenue problem, whether it be tax cuts to GST on fruit and vegetables or whatever. We get these parties claiming they need to help people enduring a ‘cost of living crisis’, yet giving people more incentive and ability to spend only exacerbates inflation. Presumably *Labour* announce these kinds of tax cuts close to an election to get people to vote for them. The main reason we need more revenue at present is because of the huge reckless spending Robertson has presided over.

Interesting to see you banging on about the health system when the past 6 years have proven that the problem isn’t the vast amounts of money being thrown at it, it’s where the money is going that is the issue. Labour have squandered billions on mergers, extra bureaucrats, a new separatist ‘Maori Health Authority’….none of it has improved outcomes for New Zealanders. Likewise we’ve seen vast waste with the polytech mega-merger, the tv / radio merger that never went ahead, the Auckland cycle bridge that was never built, Auckland light rail that never proceeded and countless other bureaucratic boondoggles. Plus $500 million of expired RAT tests that now must be chucked away. All of this money would have paid for quite a few potholes to be fixed, I am sure. The Left see this vast waste and their response is “and now we must have a wealth tax”. Quite extraordinary really, they never hold Labour to account, just continue with the myopia they are known for.

I would suggest the current polling would indicate at least some people are holding labour to account, that is what elections are for.

You might have hit on why Labour are not campaigning on their past successes.

[Logen Ninefingers]

I would suggest the current polling would indicate at least some people are holding labour to account, that is what elections are for.

You might have hit on why Labour are not campaigning on their past successes.

I don’t vote according to who will give me a tax cut. No doubt some people do. My main fear is what will happen after the election of a LABGREETEPATI government, as I think we will see a dystopian nightmare unfold over the ensuing 3 years, with extreme racial division, crime and society descending into a ‘Mad Max’ scenario, and a large scale ‘brain drain’ and capital flight. While others peruse policies with a hawk-like intensity and end up wasting their vote, I’ll vote simply to block the LABGREETEPATI nightmare from becoming a reality.

[fungus pudding]

I don’t vote according to who will give me a tax cut. No doubt some people do. My main fear is what will happen after the election of a LABGREETEPATI government, as I think we will see a dystopian nightmare unfold over the ensuing 3 years, with extreme racial division, crime and society descending into a ‘Mad Max’ scenario, and a large scale ‘brain drain’ and capital flight. While others peruse policies with a hawk-like intensity and end up wasting their vote, I’ll vote simply to block the LABGREETEPATI nightmare from becoming a reality.

As I do. Vote in the best way you can against the party who will do the most harm .