{"id":78,"date":"2009-12-13T19:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T02:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-12-13T19:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T02:20:53","slug":"investing-in-green-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/politics\/investing-in-green-tech","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Green Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I personally love the idea of investing in Green Tech. The government needs to setup a \"clearing house\" website where all the available options are indexed and catalogued.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I understand in NZ the government has provided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>interest free loans for solar power?<\/li>\n<li>insulation support?<\/li>\n<li>no road user charges for 4 years for electrics (heck make is 20 years!)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I reckon 5 to 8 years would have been better to allow companies to justify some serious expenditure on electrics and hyrbid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, where is the support for Bio Fuels?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would like to see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No parking fees for hybrids \/ electrics \/ and ultra-low emissions vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Link bus frequency dropped from 10mins to 9mins peak hour, and from 20mins down to 18mins off peak.<\/li>\n<li>Force power retailers by law to pay house-hold generators the full retail price for power reversal (not the wholesale rate).<\/li>\n<li>A weekly lottery - each week someone gets a full-on 5kw solar panel and grid-synchroniser setup for their home: so they can sell power back to the grid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I personally love the idea of investing in Green Tech. 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