You're overlooking the intense upward pressure on commodity prices due to increasing demand from rapidly developing countries.<br><br>Peter Trotman.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Marshall</b> <<a href="mailto:paul&jean@7RjB7wz4X6amI678cDa4lnf3DR94F7mRZudyDhcYd5KPssC3gTsl4cKQj0pTjWcS37liWKkqWyqRaw.yahoo.invalidn.co.uk">paul&jean@lhscsUMyUvJkNK7SYYqEHDOoGAcpFUM3GVispT9D-2sx2l4oiXKkjIN97qz_njGbdpko1NBOfyXL2fAiHAJ6_n3k.yahoo.invalid</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">









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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">According to the Retail Price Index,
prices have increased by approx 100% since January 1987. (Actual figures are 206%
if you include everything but only 83% if you exclude house prices).</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Given that £100 per cwt is £2000 per ton,
you should now be paying about £4,000 per tonne (1 tonne being near enough 1
ton).</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Cheers,</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Paul</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>