81 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Aug \ on: New Zealand Abandons Green Energy Fantasy, Embraces Oil and Gas for Stability news
New Zealand has a habit of rapidly pivoting towards free markets before creeping back into progressivism.
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95 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 26 Aug
That may be the point, but if you can no longer supply the masses with energy and the resulting products of general entertainment, then any government will tend to return to reason
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108 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Aug
It's just historically interesting, because other countries tend to increase government control until they go off the cliff. NZ pivots a little quicker, reverses course, and then starts speeding towards the cliff again.
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