The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more
About this episode
The episode discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, electric cars, and features insights from various guests on related geopolitical and economic issues.
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics here, along with special guests Edward Miller and Max Rashbrooke , who are researchers and commentators. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about electric cars, a surfeit of news and Donald Trump’s speech yesterday. Peter recommended the last two episodes of the podcast Past, Present and Future . Bernard and Peter referred to the case that referred to NZME’s largest shareholder, Jim Grenon, and this article in Newsroom from Tim Murphy: Thumbs down for NZME’s Grenon in high-stakes court fight over tax * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked about how the responses to the fuel crisis were bedding in fossil fuel dependency. * Bernard, Peter and Robert then talked about Trump’s speech and the events in Iran and the Middle East. * Edward Miller then joined the show to talk about his Op-Ed in The Post-$ this week titled: ‘We’ve been left dangerously exposed by the failure to build a public diesel reserve’. He also recently wrote this on…
People in this episode
Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale
Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Edward Miller, Max Rashbrooke
Topics covered
- geopolitics
- economy
- climate change
- politics
- fuel crisis
- electric cars
Keywords
- fuel crisis
- geopolitics
- electric cars
- Donald Trump
- economy
- climate change
- public diesel reserve
- inflation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NZME, Newsroom, The IDEA Charitable Trust
Books & works: Past, Present and Future, The Post-$, As oil prices surge, how realistic is a worst-case inflation scenario of 3.7%?, How to protect the poorest during a fuel crisis, The government’s fuel crisis package looks weaker with each passing day
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