2 petrol stations on our journey home and both had signs saying they had no petrol. The 3rd petrol station we passed had a long line of cars queuing up on the road waiting to fill up. Obviously some motorists are ignoring the advice by the authorities not to panic buy. The National Government gets it wrong (again!) as only governments can. It has squandered another $2.84 million dollars of NZ taxpayers hard-earned money on yet another ill-conceived and poorly thought- through scheme to help 're-build' Christchurch. All it's doing is feeding its own bureaucracy and waste. No wonder the country's broke! Remind me - again - how much the circus clowns are being paid? Dim Ginny Shipples et al? Quote: CERA officials are being paid over twice as much as was officially recommended. Former National Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, Anake Goodall and Murray Sherwin are being paid $1000 a day while the panel's convenor, Sir John William Hansen, receives $1400 a day. Nepotist cronyism at its finest, eh? The folks in Christchurch must be hugely comforted and genuflect, every time they pass the CERA HQ.