It ain’t easy being green

Kathleen Cole (Oct 1, TDN) denounces oil and gas ‘‘poisoning’’ NZ whilst supporting Rainbow Warrior 3 ‘sailing’ into NZ waters carrying 110,00 litres of the filthy diesel she wants to stop us using.

This flagship of green energy is typical of the Greens’ hypocrisy.

When asked about their use of diesel engines they would say ‘oh, but it’s only a back-up engine’.

OK, why not use a gas turbine engine which burns cleaner?

They could retort saying their engine can burn bio fuel – yet no mention of bio fuels in the ship specs. Just diesel.

Right now there are battery and LNG powered hybrid vessels larger than Rainbow Warrior 3 servicing specifically the O&G industry. How ironic that O&G has vessels cleaner than Greenpeace.

In fact O&G is leading the development of these cleaner vessels for the world.

Tiresome is rhetoric from greens about filthy O&G whilst they refuse to give up their gaspowered coffees, barbecue and synthetic clothes.

Gas is our transition fuel because the alternatives fuel technologies aren’t there in quantity and cost – yet. Cutting off our own supply of cheap, clean burning gas puts a timeline on when we run out of gas. Then we must import it at greatly increased cost.

Greens hope that one day technology will be there to replace gas.

One day yes, but not before our gas runs out. Certainty.

Greens forget O&G are investing heavily in renewable fuels such as hydrogen, solar, wind and currents.

O&G might back these initiatives further if they were publicly supported, developing these technologies instead of being constantly burned at the stake by the Greens – with fire ironically started by a gas lighter.

Enough of your dirty fuel ranting, go out and publicly support the O&G clean projects. They exist and are our future. Joe Goodin, New Plymouth