The Minister for Cycling and Associate Minister for Trashing the Economy, Ms Julie Anne Genter, is the well-deserved roastee this weekend. After all, Genter told Morning Report there was an assumption that New Zealanders did not want the speed limit to drop, but research showed “a huge percentage of the
The trouble with making bold predictions based upon a belief system rather than facts and science is that nature may not cooperate with your beliefs. When you boldly state that glaciers are going to be gone by 2020, it is a tad annoying to find that they are still there,
It is time to bring the Oilers up to date on the Waste Minimisation (Plastic Shopping Bags) Regulations 2018 which come into force on July 1. As a public service we would not want to see any Oilers arrested for not following the strict letter of the law in order
The plastic bag ban was one of the biggest subjects children wrote to the PM about last year and so with much virtue signalling the PM and supermarkets set off to save the planet. As Whaleoil has been saying all along, they, and the children, are just plain wrong! Now,
When a retired Admiral, once chief of the Australian Defence Force, says we are doomed, it simply has to be true. After all it is an appeal to authority (always a winning tactic in an argument) and especially an authority with a chest-full of medals, no doubt. There is no
Golly gee, at this rate Martyn Bradbury will need to get a regular slot on Whaleoil. Martyn keeps calling out the left for their hypocrisy and he is absolutely correct in doing so. Martyn rightly points out that if Treasury had just pulled a hacking manipulation this audacious while National
A Newspaper has printed a story about cars being to blame for higher pollution levels in Auckland than in a Japanese city, without a shred of an attempt at balance. The study, published in the journal Atmospheric Pollution Research, analysed a measure of fine particulate matter, called PM2.5, for
There is a great article on wind power by Jay Lehr and Tom Harris over at WUWT. It goes into more depth about the cost to consumers and to nature but as they are US figures and examples they are not directly transportable to a New Zealand context. The extra
Unsatisfied with the reach of the ‘toxic masculinity’ label, the woke have now started on ‘toxic whiteness’. All we need now is for older folk to be accused of displaying ‘toxic wisdom’ and the ‘pale stale male’ will have won the trifecta. In controversial “implicit bias” training, New York City’
The UN has found a new bogey(wo)man that is apparently responsible for training men to be rapists. Why don’t these people go and get a real job? Digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are tools of oppression used by the patriarchy to keep women down,
The title of this post is unashamedly plagiarised from a James Delingpole article, “To Survive, Britain’s Conservatives Must ‘Get Rid of the Green Crap’” Besides the Brexit Party, one of the big winners of the European Parliament elections — in Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and
When the left-leaning media start putting the boot into our socialist government, things are getting serious. Did Heather wake up and have a sip of reality one morning? Just like that, the rainbows and unicorns have vanished. Where on earth did HPDA get that imagery from? It seems that her
In another Kiwi word first, 114 years’ ago this weekend, the very first state-run maternity hospital was opened in Wellington. At the beginning of the 20th century, the quality of midwives varied from caring and competent to dirty and dangerous. As Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, Grace Neill had seen first-hand
Since winter is upon us, it is now time for a Whaleoil public service advisory for all the readers who drive electric vehicles. This article was first published in the northern hemisphere winter. Cold temperatures can sap electric car batteries, temporarily reducing their range by more than 40 percent when
This week’s roasting is not really of a person, although Mallard certainly deserves to be in the cross-hairs again. Rather it is an action that has got the Oilers exercised. The action of an innocent hug being elevated to sexual assault and even, maybe, rape. It all began with
