General scepticism about OPEC's ability to pump any more oil has also put upward pressure on the price.

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What he has never said, and what I attempted, I thought, to appropriately mock yesterday, was the idea that there are magic solutions, that you can put forward a proposal to cut the price at the pump in half on a piece of paper with a couple of magic beans.

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"He played well at a period when we were under the pump but that partnership got us going and put a bit of scoreboard pressure on them, " Katich said.

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