Dave5

They’ll tell you the oil and gas ban, which came into effect six years ago, is to blame.

That wilfully ignores how, of the five oil and gas fields that already exist, it has taken an average of 16 years to go from exploration to production. It carefully curates out the fact that gas production has been falling since 2014 – four years before the ban came into place.

But putting fossil fuels on life-support doesn’t only artificially inflate the size of your power bill and help fry the planet. It also actively undermines investment in renewables and their resilience and affordability.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christopher-luxon-is-gaslighting-the-country-amid-energy-crisis-chloe-swarbrick/ATDMJW7AX5HX3EIQVH5AMX5CSU/