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Alternative headline: National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster.

The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads.

That's all there is to it.

Battery electric hybrid, to be exact, with no diesel involved. Scheduled to arrive 2028-2029

This is probably a stupid question but... So I understand how the government uses the OCR to increase interest rates and drive inflation down by reducing the borrowing in an economy. What I've been thinking about recently though is could there be a mechanism whereby instead of the interest rate increase being solely at the cost of the borrower (rate increases > you pay more interest on the same total borrowing > total cost of borrowing over time increases) that some 'minimum principal' payment rate was increased instead.

So the idea being that if the OCR was 0.25 in 2020 and is 5.5 now, could that 5.25% increase (and thereby the decrease in overall borrowing) have been achieved through a minimum principal pay down rate instead. Borrowers are still paying more and therefore borrowing less, just that the banks and reserve bank don't have a greater take and new Zealanders end up with less total borrowing.

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Hope everyone is safe down there.

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I saw this and thought it is really cool

I was having this conversation with a friend and we both got some useful ideas from each other (cancelling various underused subscription services, making use of libraries, more home vege gardening etc) - curious to know what else people are trying.

Personally, one of my highest priorities for voting is climate change so I guess it will be Greens again.

If you think climate change is important as well, please vote accordingly.

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Hilarious.

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This is a fantastic initiative. Hopefully all parties subscribe to this.

It's win win for all involved. Only power companies would be against this.

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Once upon a time, I seem to remember some folks managing to negotiate better rates than carded.

Is this still a thing?

If so, how do you go about doing it?