Friday 18 January 2008

NUMBER CRUNCHING

$20 – price per barrel of oil which Rupert Murdoch predicted as his reason for backing Iraq war in 2003
$100 – price of oil after five years of war.


Initial cost of Visitors Reception Centre, House of Commons - £8,687,500
Final cost of Visitors Reception Centre, House of Commons - £12,450,000


60% rise in wholesale gas prices which National Power say it has no choice but to pass on to customers
60% proportion of net income which National Power’s parent company RWE proposes to pass on to shareholders in dividends

1 comment:

Michael said...

Gas prices = just one more thing to thank the Tories for.
Next time you hear George Osborne banging on about the Northern Rock scandal, remember thousands of old people struggling to heat their rooms this winter.