NZ Government unprepared for peak oil

Few New Zealanders can have failed to notice the rapid rises in fuel prices over recent months. However, many New Zealanders still do not realise the real reason for these rises. Probably the main reason for this situation is that the Clark government has deliberately downplayed or totally ignored very pertinent facts, in order to mislead the New Zealand public into thinking there is a future in the continued pursuance of it policies, policies that are actually based on ideology, are largely dysfunctional and should have been abandoned years ago.

Thus the Clark government continues to pour millions of dollars of public money into roading projects that have no future whatsoever, because there will be no fuel for the vehicles. It continues to promote globalisation when all the evidence points to a collapse of the global economy over the coming years. It also continues to promote mass tourism when all the evidence points to there being few, if any airlines operational a few years from now.

New Zealand Herald