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# Oh Dear: Consumer Goes Woke
- URL: https://goodoil.news/oh-dear-consumer-goes-woke/
- Published: 2023-12-02T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-02T18:58:28.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Business, Climate Change, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

**Harry Palmer**

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Consumer/supplied. The BFD.

I received the above update in a Consumer email. It is [also on their website](https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/consumer-nz-and-others-seek-high-court-declaration-that-z-energy-has-misled-new-zealanders?ref=goodoil.news). This was my response to them:

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> Though I’ve been a member of Consumer for many years and will always remain grateful for the help the organisation has given me in several matters, I’m afraid that I consider the above to be of so little interest or worth – in fact quite the reverse, pretty damaging – to the public of New Zealand, as to make you appear as government lickspittles. Did you by any chance enjoy an award of part of the $55 million dollars the recent Labour coalition also bribed the MSM with? In that case you don’t deserve any further financial assistance from your more gullible members.  
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> Your actions smack of the same kind of attempted censorship that government-funded outfits like NewsGuard – which is currently being sued by Elon Musk – were formed for: to dissuade media outlets from publishing ‘disinformation’ and ‘conspiracy theories’ which would counter government ‘spin’. If their dissuasion – their overt threats – don’t work, NewsGuard’s next resort is to approach the publisher’s advertisers and get them frightened enough to starve the publisher of its revenue stream. Funnily enough, your approach seems to be against a company that I strongly suspect offends the government rather more than the public of this country.   
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> I was the production engineer for a well-known gas production company for many years and one of whose products was carbon dioxide. My experience in that area and as a practical engineer gives me certainty in my belief that ‘global warming’ is a hoax being perpetrated on the public and \[…\] you are proclaiming *Consumer* to be party to \[…\] this. Instead of your ‘Z Team’ or whatever it’s called pursuing the above matter, I would suggest that these ignorant, presumed millennials would feel better marching the streets and screaming anti-semitic abuse in favour of the Palestinians.  
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> Feel free to cancel my membership, which I intend doing myself if you respond with some authoritarian BS lecture about how we all must do our best to ‘save the planet’.

Consumer’s tame reply was to give me a link to use if I want to cancel my membership…

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