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Why giving the Commerce Commission the power to set 'fair' fuel prices is unfair on NZ’s climate targets

  • Written by Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland
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The government announcement that the Commerce Commission will soon have the power to regulate wholesale petrol and diesel prices might be good news for cash-strapped motorists, but it’s arguably a retrograde step in the fight against climate change.

While there is some scepticism about whether the commission will ever act to...

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