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	Comments on: All those EU and Malta flags and that podium: to announce two cents off petrol	</title>
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	<description>Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta.</description>
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		By: Gahan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gahan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 23:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1842940&quot;&gt;Field of Miracles&lt;/a&gt;.

Your statement 1 metric ton petrol=1.351 litre

I think 1,351 litres is more likely to be the right value.

With your figures it  boils down to €25 million? But you mixed points with commas and fuel with petrol.

Before you check your work, notice that you did not consider that your calculations were futile, what he took he gave you back a month later and you went to calculate the cost of going back to April Fool&#039;s day.

A family burns some 40 litres per week: 2 cents is a whopping 80 cents  a week, which is an income increase of 0.1% in a year for a couple earning €30,000.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1842940">Field of Miracles</a>.</p>
<p>Your statement 1 metric ton petrol=1.351 litre</p>
<p>I think 1,351 litres is more likely to be the right value.</p>
<p>With your figures it  boils down to €25 million? But you mixed points with commas and fuel with petrol.</p>
<p>Before you check your work, notice that you did not consider that your calculations were futile, what he took he gave you back a month later and you went to calculate the cost of going back to April Fool&#8217;s day.</p>
<p>A family burns some 40 litres per week: 2 cents is a whopping 80 cents  a week, which is an income increase of 0.1% in a year for a couple earning €30,000.</p>
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		By: observer		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1842445&quot;&gt;marlene&lt;/a&gt;.

What &quot;grand discours&quot;, prithee. 

When was sh*t called otherwise in French?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1842445">marlene</a>.</p>
<p>What &#8220;grand discours&#8221;, prithee. </p>
<p>When was sh*t called otherwise in French?</p>
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		By: Tabatha White		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tabatha White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 15:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1847345&quot;&gt;Manuel&lt;/a&gt;.

I&#039;d go with this.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1847345">Manuel</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d go with this.</p>
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		By: ciccio		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ciccio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 13:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1843722&quot;&gt;Makjavel&lt;/a&gt;.

Ma ninsewx l-incova.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1843722">Makjavel</a>.</p>
<p>Ma ninsewx l-incova.</p>
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		By: ciccio		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ciccio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 13:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1843170&quot;&gt;Freedom5&lt;/a&gt;.

And the big question is: where is the money from the sale of 190 passports?   At Eur 650,000 each, that&#039;s almost Eur 125 million.  

Where is the fund which had to be created to invest those monies?

In whose custody are those monies?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1843170">Freedom5</a>.</p>
<p>And the big question is: where is the money from the sale of 190 passports?   At Eur 650,000 each, that&#8217;s almost Eur 125 million.  </p>
<p>Where is the fund which had to be created to invest those monies?</p>
<p>In whose custody are those monies?</p>
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		By: Maltease		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maltease]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 12:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1846664&quot;&gt;Ġames&lt;/a&gt;.

They probably used up more petrol to get there and look for parking than they will save by the end of the year.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1846664">Ġames</a>.</p>
<p>They probably used up more petrol to get there and look for parking than they will save by the end of the year.</p>
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		By: Maltease		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maltease]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 11:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1842400&quot;&gt;Peter Mallia&lt;/a&gt;.

My thoughts exactly: more than going against some EU directive, I suspect he was informed that it would actually lose votes and not win votes.

So they had to think of something fast, and his favourite pet (Konrad) came to his rescue with an idea fenomenali.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/all-those-eu-and-malta-flags-and-that-podium-to-announce-two-cents-off-petrol/#comment-1842400">Peter Mallia</a>.</p>
<p>My thoughts exactly: more than going against some EU directive, I suspect he was informed that it would actually lose votes and not win votes.</p>
<p>So they had to think of something fast, and his favourite pet (Konrad) came to his rescue with an idea fenomenali.</p>
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		By: verita		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[verita]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 11:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Annuncio vobis gaudum magnum. Habemus centezimus rohsus.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Annuncio vobis gaudum magnum. Habemus centezimus rohsus.</p>
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		By: verita		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[verita]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 11:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He said &quot;Il-prezz se jibqa&#039; iffissat&quot; for unchanged. He needs a translator in his public speeches.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He said &#8220;Il-prezz se jibqa&#8217; iffissat&#8221; for unchanged. He needs a translator in his public speeches.</p>
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		By: Manuel		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Manuel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 11:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was a stunt by the Lord of Castille to ridicule Malta&#039;s tenth anniversary membership in the EU. 

We know how much he hates the EU and we know were he stood when it came to the EU referendum. The timing for this 2cents worth of glory was planned.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was a stunt by the Lord of Castille to ridicule Malta&#8217;s tenth anniversary membership in the EU. </p>
<p>We know how much he hates the EU and we know were he stood when it came to the EU referendum. The timing for this 2cents worth of glory was planned.</p>
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