But the fact is that like all of the assumptions that are put into this plan, they do not hold water. The micro-management, the banning of technology is the wrong way to reduce emissions, because this Government now has two contradictory climate change polices. One is the emissions trading scheme, which sets a cap on total emissions. If the objective is to reduce total emissions in New Zealand, the right thing to do is to set that cap, auction off the units, let people respond to the price signals, and make choices about how they live and do their work and build their businesses within that constraint. 