We were all so proud when you bought out Shell. We had our own
power company instead of being royally screwed by overseas companies.
Our delight was complete when you told us you were going to be an
'Energy' company. We pictured you gradually shifting to charging the
ever increasing electric cars with the roves of your stations covered
with solar panels and a large battery at each station, storing excess
and even stabilizing the voltage and frequency of the local grid.
For
heaven sake, you have some 250 stations country wide. With a one mWh
battery at each station, you would have had more capacity than even the
upgraded Hornsdale. You would have had a country-wide distributed energy storage capacity.
And it wouldn't have been a financial sacrifice on your part. These
batteries are ridiculously profitable in their own right. Hornsdale paid
off the whole $66m investment in her 100mWh battery in three years.
We
pictured you taking a whole range of waste streams and turning them
into petroleum products by pyrolysis or one of the other known
processes. All our plastic waste, used rubber tires, used engine oil,
tallow, wood and paper, electronic equipment etc. etc. would have been
diverted from land fills which are degrading New Zealand.
Now
we are back where we started or worse. You are selling off Z to an Australian company. Do you realize that Ausi banks
take about one billion Kiwi dollars our of this country every 6 months.
Now we will have our major fuel provider doing the same.
To
top it off, you and the other owners of Marsden point are going to
shaft our strategic capacity to refine our own petroleum products and
make us dependent on overseas suppliers for them.
Just another New Zealand success story. So sad.
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