P Donnell (Weekend Sun, June 5) has twisted my earlier letter regarding the irresponsibility of Jacinda Ardern and Labour, using an example of forbidding private enterprise oil exploration into NZ's responsibility to reduce carbon emissions and the Zero Carbon Act.

My view is simply that New Zealand and the world will always need oil and gas notwithstanding that it will be at a much lower level in future decades.

Therefore if we have the capacity to produce our own we are better off in all respects to provide jobs and save our foreign exchange for something else.

If I am wrong then, simply, private enterprise which is bearing the risk and cost of exploration will cease their activities without any direction from Jacinda Ardern.

Nor do we need Jacinda grandstanding to the world at the expense of we taxpayers.

That is why I firmly believe that if Labour and its coalition partner the Greens, are re-elected to power it will be disastrous for the NZ economy.

Voters need to look ahead when determining what they think is best for NZ.

B Capamagian, The Avenues