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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Shane Jones: Associate Energy Minister on fuel stocks, supply offers, inadequate storage
Description: New Zealand’s fuel suppliers will be “substantially punished” legally and financially if they don’t live up to their word in supplying fuel, Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones says. Those international companies had asked for the current just-in-time supply model, and “rightly or wrongly I took them at their word”, Jones told Mike Hosking. “I said, okay, you guys know how to keep New Zealand afloat, but the political downside is that the national security question always remains with the Government, not just the commercial companies.” There was no suggestion of any problem with supply...