But they're not the slightest bit useful to someone making multi-billion dollar policy decisions. Okay so the PM knows how much a litre of petrol costs, on 1 day, in 1 city, to within a few cents. So what? How does that help him solve the cost of living crisis? How does that repair our relationship with Indonesia? How does that protect veterans at risk of self-harm? This knowledge isn't useful to a politician for anything. Likewise, it's not useful to you and me that they know it. It doesn't feed into any decisions about anything. It's minutiae, garbage trawled by lazy journos on a slow news day. And nobody knows these answers. You have so much material you can use to beat the other side about the head, I'm just suggesting you don't use the 'how much' routine to beat them, because it's not a problem and it's universal.
