Yeah my wife has salary sacrifice for public transport covering her and three kids who all need to go into town daily, which amounts to something like $250/mo at current rates
To be able to cut that to $50/mo would be a meaningful saving for us
And also this. bsky.app/profile/step...
Meanwhile..
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Lew
Notable that the cost here is that of keeping your microwave plugged in – to keep the clock running and the touchpad active. The article is a weird mix of "savings" so small as to be irrelevant and "you can insulate your house".
This is good policy, and a very strong contrast with how the government chose to allocate new transport spending in the Budget. I hope they have a good plan for selling it, eg ...
Russell Brown
Just as someone who did a bit of ethics at uni, it would be amusing to see Labour going hard on positive rights as the libertarian party functionally abandons negative ones
"But I don't use public transport."
"You also don't use that one road in the Waikato that's costing enough to fund fare caps for hundreds of thousands of people for 26 years."
"Oh."
Rob🎸
The Consumer NZ article it cribs from isn't much better. It suggests unplugging USB chargers (none of which consume more than 0.5 watts) when not in use but doesn't bother to say which printers it found used *100 watts* on standby. www.consumer.org.nz/home-and-liv...
Russell Brown
Russell Brown
Russell Brown
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
