{"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. The government needs to setup a &#8220;clearing house&#8221; website where all the available options are indexed and catalogued. For example, I understand in NZ the government has provided: interest free loans for solar power? insulation support? no road user charges for 4 years for electrics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}