Willis ScottSCOTT WILLIS (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. To be clear the Minister and his merry hand of free-market preachers and adherents to the prosperity gospel seem to want to drive to the Rapture in their SUVs because the Minister can't abide electric vehicles (EVs) and God forbid travelling on public transport. There's nothing like a thirst for fossil fuels to power the end times is there? Is it because the Minister is awaiting the Rapture that he can't be bothered with earthly details like good legislation like climate initiatives like a livable planet?This Government cancelled the Inter-island Resilient Connection with no plan B for safe ferry travel across Cook Strait. The Government's killed off light rail for Tāmaki-makau-rau stopped Wellington moving and supported road speed increases which will increase fatalities on our roads so no they haven't started. They want to get started on increasing fatalities on our roads—Andy Foster: Point of order Mr Speaker. As much as we're enjoying the speech I haven't yet heard one reference to the bill at all.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): Just to note that relevance is the role of the Speaker—that's me. The member may continue.SCOTT WILLIS: Thank you Mr Speaker. We do need road-user charges and fuel excise duty to help pay for the upkeep of New Zealand roads—that's true. But the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill driven through urgency has shown us the danger of speed.Chlöe Swarbrick: It's off track.SCOTT WILLIS: Ha ha! Speed in this legislative space makes for mistakes—mistakes that the member opposite has admitted—and poor policy. Mistakes that have fallen well this time but it's a blitzkrieg of destruction which only really serves the fossil fuel sector.I read in National's electrifying New Zealand policy that National wants a future where buses and trains are powered by clean electricity where we go on holiday in cars powered by clean electricity" and yet what we see is far from the rhetoric. Forget buses and trains forget ferries all National has done is work to disincentivise EVs and ignore the rest.The Better New Zealand Trust submission stated: "To have any chance of meeting our climate goals the Govt must reduce … fossil fuels by all means possible." And we've heard submitters' extensive concerns about this bill through the select committee process—the foreshortened select committee process. The Motor Industry Association talked about the timing for the removal of the road-user charges exemption for light vehicles on 1 April so soon after the repeal of the Clean Car Discount. And their second concern was about the equity of road tax regardless of vehicle engine type or motor power and the tax system used. They argued that "Motorists deserve to contribute equitably [for] their fair share for roading costs."So yesterday the rewiring New Zealand report on Electric Homes: The energy economic and economic opportunity of electrifying New Zealand's homes and cars was released. I just had a meeting with Mike Casey and co. It tells us what we already know. In a petrol vehicle only about 16 percent to 25 percent of the energy in petrol is turned into motion. Most of this energy is lost as waste. In an electric vehicle 87 to 91 percent of the electricity it receives is converted into motion at the wheels.This Government is simply pulling the RUC on electrifying land transport. There's worse. This is simply bad for our rural communities. This is so bad for our rural communities. We know that rural people drive three times further than urban people and drive on the worst roads. I know where Mark lives. We could do so much better.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): And could the member come back to the bill and not worry about that.SCOTT WILLIS: Think about the Finnish example where RUCs are based on the roads you drive on. Poor quality roads cost less in road-user charges than urban highways with overbridges. All our rural people who drive EVs are now being doubly punished—punished for driving an EV and subsidising diesel fossil fuel vehicles punished for paying for the privilege of driving on the worst roads in Aotearoa and subsidising the motorways. This bill is a disaster that comes from speed. We can do so much better.Chlöe Swarbrick: Let's get back on track.SCOTT WILLIS: Let's get back on track not back on baccy."