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Is that the Oil futures investigation you're talking about?
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Not quite, my mate works in exploration, so he has a fair idea what's being discovered where (frequent trips to Tanzania, for instance). He's laughing though, he's in a job for life, they'll still be discovering stuff in 50 years. He's had about five pay rises lately, too.
What they won't be discovering is the good stuff that's easy to dig up, but that doesn't worry him.
What'll probably happen is that Darling and co. will cave in, there'll be another big hole in the public finances and then the price of petrol will drop 10 or 15p and we'll all wonder what the fuss was about. Meanwhile, somebody somewhere will be sending off for yacht catalogues.