PM Christopher Luxon says New Zealand is preparing for a prolonged impact from the Middle East conflict, warning fuel conditions could deteriorate over the coming weeks even though current supplies remain secure.
Speaking to legacy media alongside Nicola Willis, Luxon said the government was now planning for an extended disruption to global supply chains, with ministers and industry focused on the next eight to twelve weeks.
He said New Zealand currently has around seven weeks of fuel either in the country or en route, but acknowledged panic buying and local distribution pressures were already affecting some service stations.
Willis said officials were preparing response options under the National Fuel Plan and examining tax and transfer measures to ease cost pressures, while cautioning the government could not shield households from all global price impacts. Twice-weekly public fuel supply updates are expected to begin soon.
Couldn’t possibly have our own refinery, oil, gas, coal, cheap power.
Governed by fools
We have such infrasturcture, or had such; Liebour shut-down Marsden Point and filled the pipes with cement!!!!
They NEVER thought about the possibility of an energy crisis or contingency…but they were quick to shut-down the refinery due to ‘Global Warming’…’Climate Change’…’Carbon Credits’…!
NZ Oil & Gas several years ago published a report of exploratory energy sources to their stockholders.
Oil = 460+ years still in the ground, & gas = 300+ years.
Shane Jones has NEVER mentioned re-opening and modernising Marsden Point, and NEVER would the Nazional or Liebour Parties..!
Vote for the NZ Loyal Party, and top emergency funding will be directed to energy independence with Marsden Point being for all of New Zealand!
Yes most countries have at least 3 months supply of fuel that is the benchmark. Why does not NZ – ???? because we are being Governed by Bribed Criminal Corrupt fools. Everybody remember this at Election time – the Uniparty System has way gone past its use by date. All mass vote NZ Loyal if they dont get in leave NZ for South East Asia or be a slave for life. Think about it Slavery or Freedom. Life in NZ is now unaffordable for basic needs. It is not a matter of if something has to give – it already has.
i agree completely
Fools ? – try Bribed Corrupt Infantical Genocidal Criminals. It sounds much better.
If we had developed our own oil infrastructure rather than joining in the climate hysteria, we would be home and hosed. Oh and thanks Chris for your government supporting the douche bag Yanks who caused this problem.
“preparing response options”.. you mean rationing, carless days and the now favoured “lockdown” options Willis?
Exactly.
Didn’t the willis luxon press conference look a lot like the podium of truth, with a retarded woman backed up by a dishonest clever man?
Their melodramatic “emergency” language is obviously coached by the same propagandists who engineered the covid “emergency”
Dont be fooled. Luxon knows the aussie energy cartel is ramping.NZ diesel and petrol prices up by multiples of the rise in oil costs, so why is he letting them?
NZ needs a new centre right party with a finance minster who can remember and understamd numbers and does not have to read her apeeches off an a4 sheet.
And a PM who.doesn’t lie and deceive every time he opens his.moith.
Counting chickens before they hatch…
You can’t count the fuel that is not here yet..
Aussie pm saying only take as much fuel as you need..
Things are looking great
Meanwhile there’s 6 capped oil wells ready to go that have been parked up since the 60’s in the South Island..
This is agenda 2030
Never forget Cuxon supported this stupid Operation Epstein Fury from the beginning.
yeah, “examining” the tax…. slippery dodging luxon and his bootlicker waspnest cohorts have NO FKN INTENTION of doing anything about all this horsesh*t going down. Look for all the evasive BS excuses not to touch the scamming overpriced-to-f*ckery goverment tax-rate on fuel. Gotta keep big-corporate fraudulant
incompetant BS fulton-hogan and council-snakes swimming in tax-payer-funded riches to keep blocking the roads with 30kph signs and to stay sitting around on their fat lazy arses snoring in their idling “road safety” trucks taking 6 months to do a 2-month job that always needs re-doing all over again 6-months later..
The real reason the roads need redoing 6 months later is because they are using the very cheapest imported bitumen. Wait til the roads really start cracking up they wont be there in 6 months to fix them that is for sure. But by then you wont need them you will be in your 15 minute city and the roads will only be for service vehicles. Yeah right – LOL.
Good YouTube video of how much oil nz has
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHo0kNNJAM&pp=0gcJCcMKAYcqIYzv
Luxflake et al., care not for us pleb class. We will be rogered by the warmongers c/o oil and gas vis a via the ME. Not a sheepish peep from the climate hysteria nut cases that farmed out our energy supply to enemy’s advantage.
Crude oil is the most Quantative substance on the planet The world is never going to run out of it. The Rockefellers named it as a Fossil fuel to keep the price jacked up.
The fossil and scarcity lie used as just another fear based control mechanism for us deplorables.
The best solution would be to set up a couple of coal to diesel plants here and we could produce diesel for 50 cents/litre and be self sufficient for centuries. Govt and climate change nut jobs stand in the way of this, but when poverty and food shortages start hitting then maybe the morons will wake up…
We had carless days over 40 years ago because oil was running out, seemed a tad overkill when supplies have lasted quite well lol. Now we have a war narrative with a similar effect.
“18th May, 1967: Texas oil billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, using a sophisticated satellite technique to detect global deposits, discovers a huge oil source south of New Zealand in the Great South Basin.
10th June, 1967: Hunt and New Zealand Finance Minister reach an agreement: Hunt will receive sole drilling rights and Muldoon will receive a $US100,000 non-repayable loan from Hunt’s Placid Oil Co.”
https://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=17241
Nothing to see here. Move along.
We could save a lot of fuel if we didn’t have huge empty diesel buses driving around here in Rotorua with NO ONE in them! They could get an EV van that Woolf easily accommodate the fee who do use public transport.