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■ turn n I H I~ = = =__■ j ■ I urge you to ask officials to provide reports on what is 3 ? 5 s sm ' m TRADEASSOCIATION lINC > -tefpLe H happening in Australia today - not the out-of-date reports given i - j to the Select Committee. They were discredited and refuted. 16 March 1988 ■ DEAR MR LANGE L H I urge Y ou t 0 the Ministers how Government will control , ta i i the activities of the oil companies once they take over and 881 In the next few days you Will be voting on the Petroleum ) ■ dominate the retail sector. Because already they are flexing Sector lt is not an issue that has raised much | ■ their muscle, and some companies are indulging in business public interest or informed debate in the House. practices which are morally reprehensible and repugnant in Yet the measures which are proposed are far reaching and New Zealand. will mean the consumer will pay more for petrol, thousands H| Finally, I urge you to give this important issue the time it needs qf jobs will be unnecessarily lost and small businesses will f or a comprehensive study to be carried out. For if this Bill go to the wall. goes through now the damage it will cause cannot be rectified Is this the price that you are prepared to pay so that only the overnight. It will take years to create again the jobs lost and to ikulti-national oil companies operating in New Zealand will ■ breakdown the price fixing cartel of the oil companies. benefit? We have argued our case logically and with facts. But in the Perhaps this is of no concern to the Government. I sincerely i B Government delegation to rush this Bih I hope not, and lam writing to you with one last appeal that B h l that argUnient hasnot to. The call for ■ ?Wl Kwill us'e Parliament, iid the debate, to get to the truth of B S ° caUed l ec ° no ™ c to ° 1S bemg t o° BBfe what the Rill will achieve H vigorously by officials hell bent to reform a system that is what the Bin win achieve. M working? anj is env ied by the rest of the world. But, then, lirge.you to ask the Ministers why no economic study has j H they are not elected representatives of the people, and they I been carried out on the effect this BiU wdl have on the ■ are not accountable to the people. You are a representative prosperity of New Zealand. M of the people and I hope and trust you will exercise that M responsibility on the basis of facts. !■ I urge you to press for unbiased reports on what has happened |H overseas where legislation of this nature has been adojoted. I . Y Ministers and the Select Committee have had to make 1 do with Yours sincerely reports produced by the influential lobby group, the American H Doug McLaren ■ Petroleum Institute —an organisation hilly funded by the ] f ; multi-national oil companies. Chief Executive ! ; ; I I I | ■ . . •. ■ _ , | : . I I | ' i I ■ i ' .f. .‘ '•’. •■■ 1 ’ • ] I > • j’ ■ * .* ! I ■ i j ’ I • I : ■ : ’ ' ’! 1 I ! ’ I ! r • • • . . ; . i - I • : • . ■' • i ■ i ! L I I • ; i ‘ i • . ■ i : i