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RNZ's Midday Rural News spoke to Mike Casey about the Great Electric Cherry Migration, which arrived in Wellington the day after the Government announced an LNG import terminal that's set to cost "north of $1 billion". Casey says it's the wrong answer to the dry year problem and that this transition is not just about moving from fossil fuels to electricity, it's about moving from being reliant on energy imports to gaining energy sovereignty and generating as much of the energy we need ourselves, as he does on his orchard.
Could reframing energy independence as a national security issue, rather than a climate one, be our best chance to go electric? The Spinoff collects a range of views from various commentators like Liam Dann, Pattrick Smellie and Joel McManus and shows that it has clearly got the attention of the media and should be getting the attention of our politicians.
Read moreDownload"There is quite a lot of talk about EV price depreciation and resale value, but we are not really talking about petrol car price depreciation. In the next five years or so, we may start to see a big game of petrol car hot potato, first between New Zealanders, and then between other countries." That was Mike Casey writing in Newsroom in January last year but, after the current crisis, it might happen more quickly than expected.
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