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# The Sunday Roast
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-sunday-roast/
- Published: 2019-08-11T01:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-10T07:07:33.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Climate Change, NZ, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

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Who did the readers give a good old Kiwi roasting this week?

This week’s Roastee had to be Auckland Mayor Phil Goff with his announcement of his intention to purchase a battery-powered tug boat. Apart from the fact that the tug needs to be recharged every four hours, there were plenty of other farcical points to be dissected by BFD readers.

**Boondecker** served the gravy, commenting that

> you can almost guarantee now they’ll be running it on the diesel pretty much all the time or (more likely) back asking the government of the day for a replacement vessel within 5 years.

**Philip the Skeptic** joked, as he turned the roast potatoes, that

> If we destroy the New Zealand economy we can reduce the amount of shipping by 50% and therefore double the battery life.

**Saggy** poked the roast to see if it was done, asking

> Will they have charging stations on the channel markers?

**bilgewater** sliced the meat when he pointed out Phil Goff’s faulty maths. Goff had claimed the extra upfront cost of $9 million didn’t matter because over the life of the vessel they would save about $2.5 million, due to the lower cost of operating it.

> the diesel tug uses 200k l/year. Their cost would be $200,000\. So it would take 45 years worth of fuel to pay for the extra 9 million. Government maths again.

The skin was crisp and the pumpkin and kumara were ready to serve when **Caustic Monkey** summed the entire farce up with this comment.

> They need two Diesel engines so that one can run the boat while the other charges the battery. Sort of like a vegan who secretly eats bacon.