http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/24/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cck-ups/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:26:30 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/24/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cck-ups/#comment-22200 Brett Davidson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22200 Re Petrol Puzzle; Dear Martyn Riddle, your calculator may not be broken, but your car soon will be if you put crude oil in the petrol tank. You are comparing the retail price (including tax) of a complete refined product (distributed to your local shop) with the benchmark price of a base commodity on a global exchange. Try doing the same with the market price of iron ore and the retail price of galvanised nails, and you might be confounded in the same way. Re Petrol Puzzle; Dear Martyn Riddle, your calculator may not be broken, but your car soon will be if you put crude oil in the petrol tank. You are comparing the retail price (including tax) of a complete refined product (distributed to your local shop) with the benchmark price of a base commodity on a global exchange. Try doing the same with the market price of iron ore and the retail price of galvanised nails, and you might be confounded in the same way.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/24/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cck-ups/#comment-22201 Penny Cosgrove Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22201 Matthew Brennan is spot on about the feverish promotion and obsession some people have with this Rose Beattie topic. If she'd consorted with a Russion spy at the same time we might have something to talk about - a modern day Keeler & Profumo! But last Monday someone went berko with the same old, same old hit the ABC across the state and (groan) again in the arvo on 4BC. What Nationals MP Rob Messenger had to do with it all heaven knows - he was getting out of nappies when it all must have taken place. They get excited by the superficial because they cant see the profound...as I think the workers were saying. Matthew Brennan is spot on about the feverish promotion and obsession some people have with this Rose Beattie topic. If she’d consorted with a Russion spy at the same time we might have something to talk about - a modern day Keeler & Profumo! But last Monday someone went berko with the same old, same old hit the ABC across the state and (groan) again in the arvo on 4BC. What Nationals MP Rob Messenger had to do with it all heaven knows - he was getting out of nappies when it all must have taken place. They get excited by the superficial because they cant see the profound…as I think the workers were saying.

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