Policy Pillar One; Reinstating Energy Independence
Policy Pillar One; Reinstating Energy Independence
Imagine you are on a canoe and a fish, adrift on the sea indefinitely while the world is going insane. That's our country.
Overview
Te Waka o Māui and Te Ika a Māui; the canoe and the fish, that’s what we live on. Once upon a time, some pretty skilled sea people navigated here and named the two islands after their hero, Māui, the demigod. The demigod of what? It’s in the word Māui, Mā; by way of, by means of, ui; enquire, untangle, investigate, question. What made Māui’s character was the content held in te kūpū, the word. How is a word formulated? By combining kū, an incoherent sound with pū, it’s precise origin. Much like English, the content of the word makes the meaning. The difference? The format, English is in a subject, verb, object format (SVO). Te Reo is in a VSO format. Take New Zealand as another example; it is a Dutch word that means new sea territory. I know it’s pronounced that way because I had a very good Dutch friend, then the government intervened in his personal choices, and now he’s gone.
After this sudden event, an event that has occurred for many, but ignored by the mob, we were left adrift, lost at sea. He kept things running in good order and kept us upbeat and busy by leading by example. He also shone his light in joy and music during his times of rest. That is how men live a good life. They improve and advance things through their work and explore their passions during rest. If they do the former well, then they get to do the latter more. Simple? Not for this country. We’re directed by Neoliberals, people who are dogmatic in their worship of a flawed interpretation of the Law of Attraction. A dogma that assumes that every idea they manifest is a good idea until it’s not. Why is this behaviour foolish and dangerous? Because it’s the path of the ignorant. The path of Abel, the brother who left Cain alone in his misery and eventually paid for it by way of Cain’s “righteous” revenge.
We’re not stupid; we’re just slow on the draw. The reason why we are slow on the draw is that psychopaths are more inclined to pursue position and power than you. We wake up and start cleaning up their mess eventually, but it usually takes a war born out of insanity and callousness to wake us up. We don’t have time for that; remember, we’re on a canoe and a fish. We’re miles from other nations, who are also struggling with inflation. An inflation that will result in more people who care less about the struggles of other import-dependent countries. Countries like ours!
Living on an isolated fish and canoe can be great, especially when the world’s going insane. If the Conservatives are wrong and the world isn’t going to hell and a hand cart, then importing fifty-one per cent of your carbon footprint is fine. If it isn’t and Neoliberal “governments” are messing with technology in a way they shouldn’t, then not having a backup plan for that massive oversight is idiocy writ large. A Neoliberal Psychopath is driven and can competently use nicety as their theatre mask, but their worst quality is their naivety.
Psychopaths and Sociopaths exist, unfortunately for all of you; they manifest in activism, health, law, politics, and business first. In this country, it’s become obvious that it is overly prevalent in the media, sales and real estate. It’s a mammoth task to clean up the mess left by ignorant psychopaths, there’s no denying that, but we’ll struggle to do it if we lose the means to make things we need. The effect of having an abundance of these damaged individuals in society is the subversion of our societal structures. We don’t have refining capabilities any more because we are the continual victims of economic and psychological subversion.
After all, if we’re not providing it, that creates an opportunity for someone else to do it. If we’re not careful, they may get a monopoly on that supply, and then we’re at the mercy of their price dictates. After all, you don’t have to be here to be a dictator; you can just act out your dictates through power-imbued useful idiots.
Te Tai Tokerau/Northland is growing; there’s no denying that. How it grows is important. Tauranga and the Mount’s flawed growth should be a lesson that reminds those in charge that some things shouldn’t be repeated. We shouldn’t neglect good foundational public transport, we should be mindful of the interconnected reliance we need on this fish, and we should be considerate of Te Ika’s flesh and veins. In order for us to move around, make things, fix our transportation mediums, and supplement soil, we need to be able to make those needs here. Where should we make it? Next to a pipeline, a deep-water port, and preferably with resource consent. Marsden Point has all three.
Ampol saw this infrastructure as competition, and maintaining the integrity of this strategic asset was deemed expedient. Corporations deal in commerce law, not fiduciary duty to the people. Because of this, key components of healthy psychology are often forsaken for short-term gains. This institutionalized form of arrogance, narcissism, and greed brings deceiving gains in the short term but harm to the surroundings in the long term. Those who catch onto it too late let out a tiny gasp. They then diligently work on finding a way out of accountability while distractions are rolled out to hide what they’ve done. That’s how you missed one of the key causes of our unaffordability crisis: the international reduction of hydrocarbon supply.
The Reinstatement of Marsden Point’s refining capabilities is a pillar policy because it is invaluable to those who service the transportation, food, and waste infrastructure of all those on this fish and canoe. Therefore, it is invaluable to everyone, whether they ideologically agree with oil and gas or not.
You don’t have to believe conspiracy theories to know that having no refinery and limited waste recycling technology here is foolish. Theories are useful, and conspiracies exist because psychopaths and sociopaths exist, and as we’ve established, there are fewer lazy psychopaths than lazy moralists. Peace can cost a good man his strength, thus allowing victory to defeat him; that sentence is the foundation of the word apathy. The cycle of apathy is: good men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, and hard times create good men.
Peace-inducing apathy is one of the reasons why nothing substantial has been done about the loss of our refining capabilities. The other reason is an unrelenting callous march toward a hypothetical utopia of electrification. I don’t oppose electrification, provided there is enough energy harvested to account for the influenced requirements of our people, the resource dependence is sustainable, and the transition process is lawful and democratic. Currently, it is not. Doctor Evil would use lasers as a solution while we work to build our own form of sustainability amongst ourselves through repeated demoralization. I would prefer that we work on real sustainability in our energy-sharing practices and focus on creating regenerative practices collectively.
If our cities want to be dependent on electricity alone for transportation, that’s their choice, and I partially agree with them. If National politicians want to drown the country’s “smart” cities with more international consumers and posturers, who can’t afford to maintain their fuel-run cars properly. Then, that will increase the fuel leakage and runoff problem in concentrated population zones, which needs to be considered. Yet, let’s not kid ourselves. Electrification is not a net-benefit direction for the environment; it’s subbing out drilling for mining. Both are headaches for environmentalism; the latter is probably more of a headache.
Where’s the energy going to come from to service all this electrical demand? Who’s going to feed the massive influx of people to offset the Crown’s debt? China? Where’s the food going to come from? China? No, that’s not practical or environmentally responsible. All those requirements will need to be made here. We require energy and products made from hydrocarbons to make all sorts of things, and until we popularise and stabilise private travel that does not need roads, we need good roads. Our food cultivators still need quality fuel, and if most of our continent is under the fish and the canoe, our vessels will need quality fuel nearby. In a world wrought with inconsistent moral coding, we need the capability to refine necessary fuel imports to the right specifications. Only a refinery can do that. Yes, you need a refinery to refine imported fuel, too.
Inflation becomes problematic when you imbalance the production of real value with too much hypothetical value, otherwise known as tangible and intangible value. If you turn a first-world island nation into a consumer-based bunker for the wealthy, the wealthy will become hated because of their attitude toward the native working people. Soon, that island nation will become a prison canoe without a paddle. A prison for who? The ones who are disliked the most. If this nation’s most shared problem is inflation and a resulting unaffordability crisis, then there is an imbalance, and the deficit is in the production of tangible needs. The resulting question is not: can the refinery be reinstated? It’s when and how?
Marsden Point Refinery needs to be reinstated; that’s a fact. How do we know this? We’ve done our due diligence, and because of this, no one wants to debate us. The Crown’s longstanding ideological dogma compels it to either mock its opposition or hide its opposition. How it determines which strategy to employ depends on the opposition’s argument. If the argument takes the reasonable hill, they’ll ignore and hide that argument. If the argument takes the compassionate hill, they’ll bludgeon it with childish bigotry and gaslighting. If the argument does a good job of both, they’ll pretend you don’t exist. What’s the lesson here? If you can’t go over them, you can’t go under them, and you can’t go through them, then you’ll have to go around them.
There is a process to getting our refinery reinstated; unfortunately for us, we are really slow on the draw. Those who know reinstatement is necessary are easily distracted by temporary election campaigns. Campaigns that display no clear plan on how to achieve farfetched goals of taking over the government through its rigged system. The government can take charge of ACC shares in the refinery and can even steal the refinery from Channel Infrastructure through the Public Works Act. The advocacy group, The Dig In At Marsden, are not interested in joining such unlawful entities in the mire, as there is no contractual guarantee that they will reinstate the refining capabilities of Marsden Point. The best course of action is to bypass them altogether and go straight to the people.
The path to reinstating the refinery is long, but we have to start in earnest to get it done so the pain we feel at the pump and at the mechanic is reduced sooner. The best way to do this without the government’s ACC shares is to increase the General Public shareholding from forty-five point five per cent to fifty-one per cent. That’s the purchase of twenty-one million shares, costing around thirty-three point six million dollars. Divided amongst one million motorists, that’s only thirty-three dollars sixty each. However, this angle requires a multi-faceted approach because to maximise the success of this endeavour, those shares would have to be converted from public shares into private shares. That way, the ideologically possessed directors could not sell the refinery under our noses, undoing all our share-collecting work.
That’s why we need marketing repetition, a secure communication network, equity law workshops, persuasion, and counter-subversion training. Thankfully, there’s already a group doing that: The Dig In At Marsden. We have the plans and the means, but still need the numbers and the cohesion to get the plans and the means to deliver results. Marketing the right policies would help, too.
Policy: Reinstating Energy Independence and Infrastructure Integrity
The Dig In At Marsden will commit to marketing the reinstatment of Marsden’s refining capabilities through several angles that attempt to remove the greenwashing of Channel Infrastructure’s Board. Using the Dig In At Marsden’s marketing and branding to get behind Good Oil’s share purchasing initiative, we will encourage people to take back the majority shareholding of Channel Infrastructure. Through our farming and freedom advocacy groups we will teach the rules of equity and trust law so they can create private collectives that permanently secure shares of our most important strategic assets. That way we protect our country from iminent and ongoing international supply issues, and we protect our future beneficiaries (our children) from economic subversion.
Innovation Subsidy
All fuel and carbon taxes that do not show a proven direct line to the funding of innovation that helps the hydrocarbon process become regenerative, should be regarded as unreasonable, and thus, unlawful. We will tell the climate accords that we are carbon negative and prove it through sequestration data. Countries will pay us for our carbon sink status as the proof shows this to be truth in law. Any taxes on fuel or hydrocarbon products must be fit for purpose and only subsidise the administration and improvement of the industry’s regenerative evolution. If the tax cannot prove its effect on increase of supply, efficiency, and the industry’s symbiotic relationship with its surroundings, then it is not fit for purpose.
Northport Expansion
We will support Northport’s expansion and the relocation of New Zealand’s Navy to Marsden Point. Yet, only if the plan accomodates the reinstatement of Marsden’s refining capabilities and expansion into a regenerative energy hub. Naval personell will be trained in engineering, maintenance and operation of infrastructure at the refinery and other energy recycling plants. New Zealand Navy Personell will also engage in drone based conservation on the coast and will assist in making Northland aerial poison free through a new hunter directed model in Conservation policy.
Regenerative Energy Hub
We will support the expansion of Marsden’s energy conversion technology by subsidising the incorporation of waste to energy plants, CO2 to fuel plants, and plastic to fuel plants. We will also invest in business models that aim to set up a competent, diverse, affordable, and efficient waste sorting and collection process that incorporates the services this hub will provide. One that rewards households for their efforts to commit to our energy conversion direction. Instead of continuing to commit to the madness of the Dome Valley dump and the exportation of our plastic waste, we want to see it transformed into useful resources here. Resources we need to make this country sustainable. We will fund any tenders for infrastructure that meets this scope through the Provincial Growth Fund.
Solar Panels
We should commit to legislation that limits solar panel construction to the rooves of existing structures. We should not allow the madness of allowing solar panels to be built on top of ariable land as a means of energy capture. Solar panels are good supplementary energy harvesters that can help households lower their energy costs, but we do not support large scale solar panel farms that would be better suited to land use models that compliment the existing environment and our pursuit of regenerative abundance.
Micro-Hydro
We should support and subsidise development and access to innovative micro-hydro technology through a Infrastructure fund. Innovations like Turbulent’s micro-hydro will help our farmers and our home-based conservationists free themselves from limited access to cheap energy. It will also help turn them into a vast decentralized network of energy providers to the grid. If our cities are consensus committed to rushed wholesale electrification, and we can’t convince them to slow down, then they will need more electricity supplied to the grid. Helping our farmers become an empowered network of energy and resource suppliers that make the most of perpetual motion, will go a long way toward raising their potential to produce more food and energy. Instead of looking at increased rainfall as a bad thing, benefit off the increased motion of water and collect and purify needed water before it is dumped into the sea.
Hydrogen
We will continue to support Infrastructure Fund Models that improve the supply and applications of hydrogen supplementation in our transport sector.
Agree in principle that buy out of Channel would be ideal as we see pump prices heading to NZ$3.50 Ltr. Another thought......design a bitumen compound that could be used to replace inferior imported rubbish that does not work in NZ roading conditions.......