Shaw JamesJAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): I am delighted that Simon Power the Minister of Transport is here—Tracey Martin: Simon Bridges.JAMES SHAW: —because he has—Simon Bridges sorry. We do miss Simon Power in this House I think but I am very glad that Simon Bridges is in the Chamber given that one of his colleagues was formerly extolling the Government's policy around electric vehicles where the Government has a lofty vision—a grand goal if you like—of doubling the number of electric vehicles. There is huge growth in that area but no real plan other than to allow them to drive in bus lanes.I do feel sorry I have to say for the Minister of Transport. I do not know how many Cabinet papers he has taken to try to get the Government to come onside with some kind of plan to really increase the uptake of electric vehicles and has had them just batted back over and over and over again. But having a group of people who can afford electric vehicles to be able to drive in the bus lane is not going to significantly increase the number of electric vehicles in this country. If you want electric vehicles in New Zealand you have to address the fact that they are very expensive. You have to bring down the price and the best way to do that is to get rid of fringe benefit tax on them so that corporate fleet buyers bring in electric vehicles and then 2 3 4 years later those vehicles enter the second-hand market which is where the vast majority of New Zealanders get their cars. That policy is something that has not been able to get through this Government because it just does not believe its own hype as with so many things when it comes to its economic development strategy.We have a choice between the Government's economic development strategy and a Green economic development strategy and I just want to talk about what distinguishes those two things apart from each other. Mr Cunliffe was making a few points before about how we have pursued over the last decade or so in New Zealand a commodity strategy of low productivity—low-wage simplified products that are easy to compete with on the international market. An example of this is in dairying where we have pursued a volume over value strategy for years and years now and it is not something that we are immune to competition on. The Americans produce about twice as much milk per cow as New Zealand does. They actually have way higher productivity because they use all sorts of terrible ways of maximising that product but in the commodity market where it is low value they can actually out-compete us on volume. The American Dairy Association has a strategy of displacing New Zealand in the Chinese market which is where we have pretty much got all of our eggs in that particular basket.The other thing about this strategy coincidentally is that it treats the environment and the economy as two things that need to be balanced against each other—that there is a trade-off between those two things. So the Government's economic development strategy is commodity low-value simplified products. If you look at the manufacturing over the course of the last decade although manufacturing export volumes have increased marginally the proportion of those products that have gone offshore is trending towards simplified low-value products rather than towards more complex high-value products. So even in an area where you have got what you might say at first blush is a pretty good-news story what is happening is that the majority of that is actually going down the value chain rather than up the value chain.On the other hand the Greens' economic development strategy is for high-value niche Brand New Zealand products that are hard to compete with because they trade on the very thing that underpins Brand New Zealand and that is actually the environment. So actually rather than treating the environment and the economy as two things that are to be balanced against each other—where there is a trade-off against each other of those two things—there is in fact a multiplier effect between the two where you actually have businesses that enhance and restore the environment and that actually creates the value in them.So for example in the heart of the Waikato in the heart of dairy country there is a tea plantation on a former dairy farm: Zealong tea—100 percent pure organic New Zealand tea. They can sell tea in China—this is a New Zealand company selling tea to the Chinese—for NZ$300 for a 135 gram tin of tea. It is good tea right but that is pretty bloody pricey for a tin of tea. They do small volumes of the world's best tea but if you talk to the people who run that company they will tell you that 90 percent of the value of that is in the air and the sun and the soil that make up New Zealand because we are the only country in the world that can produce tea without—