I’m a grumpy man at times, and recently I heard two knocks on my front door. When I opened it and bellowed “who’s there?”, no one came by. Unfortunately, this is the future of New Zealand if the Greens are re-elected on Saturday.

It may be a cheesy metaphor, but it’s a dark truth that no one wants to address. No one except the National Party.

Sure, we can attack the Greens on their economic policy. That’s fine and dandy. But if we’re being completely serious about protecting New Zealand from this plague, we need to go deeper. That means fighting the Greens on their extremist plan to phase out all petrol and diesel cars by 2038 which we will explain why it’s completely infeasible in the following paragraphs.

Sounds very cool doesn't it. No more of those pestering cars and trucks that pump that smoke in your face. But, like usual, Green policy is indeed very sinister. This is not an exception.

These vehicles are the driving force of the Kiwi economy. Day after day, it continues to pull our freight from corner to corner of our great nation. It moves the milk, the eggs, the produce, the manufactured goods from A to B. It sends everything to the next place, or even better, it sends it to the port for our companies to export.

But the Greens’ want to ban it, and fail to provide in depth information on how they’ll deal with the crisis. What would they do? Perhaps, the Greens have a delightful plan to make everyone transition to electric cars. But these are expensive. Maybe the Greens want people to ride a bike everywhere. I guess that would be cool, but would definitely take ages and would decrease productivity in New Zealand quite significantly.

Or maybe, if I’m allowed to guess, the Greens haven’t thought of what they would do to fix the mess that would be caused by this policy one would mistake for a message on a back of a organic cereal box. Perhaps that's where the Greens got it.

National, however, has formulated a more pragmatic approach to this. If elected this weekend, we’ll seek to implement a congestion tax similar to one implemented in Stockholm to reduce traffic volume in Auckland - the most congested area in New Zealand.

I agree, a congestion tax might sound frightening. But looking deeper this is a smart and reasonable policy. Essentially its a toll, and would be reinvested back into roads in the area.

It’s a win win. We’ll get the cars off the roads, and then we’ll build better ones. It’s a desirable policy, and unlike that radical policy the Eco Fascist Greens have introduced, the National solution can actually be achieved without flushing the economy down the shitter.

This Opinion Editorial was composed by National’s TheAudibleAsh.

Their views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of New Zealand Herald