What she didn't say or doesn't understand is that gas doesn't come out of the ground by magic. Businesses need to invest something called money and things that they call plant and equipment to get gas to our houses, factories, and electricity generation. Labour doesn't understand how this works: businesses need to invest big sums of money. And so this has dried up and we've seen gas production fall 40 percent in three years. This has resulted in job losses at Methanex and timber mills, and New Zealand Steel have reduced production.