But yeah long term I think the busiest line or two gets split out onto the street to through run.

A few avenues to increase capacity, more double deckers, and then I think there is an option to extend the building along Tuan st

One thing I’ve been thinking about is why are seemingly none of these businesses (major transport, big ag operators) hedging diesel prices?

If they feel like it they can smooth prices trivially with financial instruments.

Tbf they were never going to build anything without us giving them a bunch of cash. Onshore is much cheaper and they simply couldn’t compete.

The increase in health spend this year was 1.37 billion.

So we are talking about an amount of money roughly equivalent to the one year increase in health spend by this government! with significant budget pressure to boot.

Great thread, especially doing the math that I’m too lazy to do.

Again highlights to me how any material change in health has to ultimately be funded by workers and the middle class.

Takeaway here is we should sell down meridian and air nz right?

12 cents would put us back to Key era.

This is per litre too, fuel efficiency has improved hugely so per km road trips are the cheapest they’ve been in living memory.

Somethings got to increase, we’re paying for less gravel/concrete/asphalt/digger time than per litre than the early 2000s

Issue is more shocks, maybe bigger stockpiles. Fertiliser would be pretty easy. The fuel ticket system is kinda lame.

I still think the exports start to flow once bigger money is waved around, and we’re at least going to be able to pay more than most of the world. For a while.

There are a heap of water schemes like this around the country that are first and foremost stock water supply, which people have then hooked their house up to because it was convenient.

At least with 3 waters where we were going to do big cross subsidies from metro areas to rural, the plan was coherent.

But now we’re going to make people spend a bunch of cash on doing something collectively when it’s cheaper to DIY.

Devils advocate here. Our butter is more valuable to international markets because it’s not tariffed to the 9s by the world’s largest consumer.

The shipping cost of dairy is negligible because it’s extremely dense. So substituting domestic consumption and exporting more is (economically) rational.

See also: the youth can trivially get an Australian visa, immigrants cannot

Good News for Euro 6 New Zealand to import only Euro 6d vehicles from 2028

The government is progressing Euro 6 as well, so the toxic side will mostly be solved for vehicles entering the fleet anyway (by 2028)

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It is funny that diesels were advantaged under the scheme (because it only cared about carbon not toxic emission).

There was even a period where we were subsidising second hand euro 4 diesel imports lol.

It’s all so lame

Who would win

Shaheds vs AWS datacenters

Only reading about this now.

Amazing to have such a disaster. Billing system upgrades has been something the electricity companies here have been doing a bunch of

The rumor is at least Maui will close with methanex, demand and supply will spiral down together. The demand goes, the price craters, fields close, price spikes.

It’s too small of a market to be sustainable

Nz is so shit for open data. Hydro levels and flows are locked behind a massively expensive NZX / NIWA paywall.

And my latest niche gripe, BKBM auctions which is the basis for a heap of commercial lending, has a 24 hour release delay unless you pay.

We’re in the final stages of increasing diesel storage, but can’t help but wonder if it would have been better to increase it further. Maybe a swap for petrol storage.

The comments from the principal here are actually pretty interesting.

Namely that Fendalton simply isn’t a place that families move to. I’d have some pretty strong theories as to why that is.

As an aside, the fuel security study done by the government is a great read.

One good point is if you take covid as a baseline for minimum fuel use, we have in-country enough fuel to last 90 days(ish)

Park in AT buildings or other big orgs with free motorbike parking like the uni? there’s a few of them so some choice.

Only issue is typically security but you may be able to do something elaborate if you are in the same spot every day.

People really looking for something to be mad about here right?

“Well, running a kid over, could happen to anyone really”

I’d also expect buy back rates to converge at the cost to build grid scale solar themselves. Which is considerably lower than what those rates are today.

Yeah exactly, probably get some better TOU prices from around 10-4pm.