Parties on the left and the right all crying out for more oil. Turns out, it's actually still quite important.
A decent supply of it at a stable price.
And we're a long way off from that strait opening and running at full capacity again.
Trump's talking victory. Winston told me this week the war will be over before people think. But there are sea mines and rocket launchers and drones hitting that strait. No shipping company, or insurer, is going near there for a while yet.
The uprising we were told would happen hasn't happened. We've go the old boss' son in charge, and they've just killed his mum, dad and most of his family.
He's not giving up anytime soon, is he?
More important than oil is food. We've got the Wattie's plant closures.
The frozen vegetables are grown here. Peas and beans. Like peaches before them, there'll be some cheaper imported alternative filling the shelves.
The farmer's complaints? Regulation. They're drowning in it. Paperwork up the wazoo.
It was the same story with pork.
Again, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
So once this crisis is over, perhaps we remember how important food and oil are to our daily lives and stop demonising the very people trying to keep our tummies and gas tanks full.
Ryan Bridge is a New Zealand broadcaster who has worked on many current affairs television and radio shows. He currently hosts Newstalk ZB's Early Edition - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
The thing that all of the Media have missed with the Watties close down is that over 90% of the peas harvested in Canterbury by Watties is sold overseas. So we may lose our nice Canterbury Peas and Beans (and Carrots and Potatoes) but also a real loss is the overseas money that helps to pay for the Cars, Computer, Phones and various other items and some junk we import.
Of course it is bad news to Watties staff, suppliers and contractors. And the same for Canterbury cropping Farmers who most in NZ dont realise how extensive this is in Canterbury. The lose of the overseas $ is also a major loss that has been forgot by the media.
Surely both Labour and the Greens will be celebrating the lack of oil and the accompanying high costs. Even Luxon should be right behind it as he is a firm supporter of climate change, so the Nats should also be celebrating the downfall of oil.
Or is it the case of only wanting it as long as their life isn't impacted.
Great forward thinking from National scrapping the EV discounts. Stuck in the past and dragging us backwards.
@ Anon 4:32 - because taxpayers subsidising other consumers EV purchases is a good economics?
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