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    DUNGER DILEMMA

    Aug 29, 2021 5 minutes
    by JANE CLIFTON

    When 70s rock star Neil Young eulogised the beat-up old car of his skint youth in the song Long May You Run, he could never have envisaged how much more complicated pensioning off one’s old wheels was to become.

    New Zealand, for instance, is about to embark on a vehicular version of “bring out your dead!”: the nation’s old dungers are to be assessed for a bounty on their bonnets.

    The Government is considering a counterweight to its controversial Clean Car Rebate on electric vehicles (EVs), by giving owners of cars with high-emission internal-combustion engines (ICEs) a cash payment for handing them over to be scrapped.

    Discussions will start shortly with transport and other officials, the motor industry and those in the

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