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(Stuff) Kiwi households will pay about $100 extra a year as part of New Zealand efforts to meet an ambitious new climate change target, Prime Minister John Key says. (Snip)
Treasury advice was that each New Zealand household would pay an extra $1350 over 15 years, or just under $100 a year, in increased petrol, electricity and energy costs to help the country meet its target.
Of course, Warmists will poo-poo this as a minimal cost to keep the world from immolating from tiny amounts of CO2, but, what’s not included are the increased costs from others seeing their cost of doing business rising, along with this all being a static number based on future prognostications. Hey, maybe the cost will be much less. Based on the history of the last 20 years, the cost of these green initiatives has been much, much more, including loss of jobs, increased energy costs, increased cost of living, and so forth.
Who does this hurt the most? The lower and middle classes. Not that Progressives care in the least. Until their own costs rise.
