The development of steam-trawling boats meant abundant supplies of white fish from the North Sea were readily available in unprecedented quantities.
Shanghai, for instance, also boasts abundant supplies of clean water (a crucial input) and a fairly stable electricity grid.
Water is cheaper in China than in countries with abundant supplies.
Abundant supplies of low cost energy rather than restricted supplies of high cost energy would replace another, effective, crippling tax increase with an effective pro-growth tax cut.
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The oil companies, ConocoPhillips ( COP) and Chevron ( CVX), face increasing costs to extract oil and gas around the world, but abundant supplies, for now, that are likely to dampen prices and thus profits.
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The structure of Beijing's rare-earths export policies limits on exports, but more or less abundant supplies domestically suggests the goal has been to move the economy up the manufacturing value chain by encouraging foreign companies to locate high-tech production in China.
Newfound drilling technologies mean that abundant shale supplies are now accessible.
Over the last ten years the price of oil has spiked thanks to a weak dollar, thus creating the illusion of scarcity despite abundant global supplies of what is a rather prosaic commodity.
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Turkmenistan then focused its attention more heavily on alternative markets, looking to send its abundant natural gas supplies to other regional powers like China and Iran.
And like many Gulf oil producers Saudi Arabia has failed to use its abundant natural-gas supplies properly.
Abundant, relatively low-priced supplies now make natural gas a highly competitive alternative to both nuclear and wind power and even to coal generation.
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Supplies continued to remain abundant throughout winter.
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From an economic perspective, the recent discoveries of abundant domestic shale oil and gas supplies may help us avoid the likelihood of an oil shock and buy us the breathing ground to plan for a more gradual transition to a more efficient post-fossil world.
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Regardless of their environmental benefits, alternative energy supplies have not yet proved cheap or abundant enough to wean the rich countries from their oil addiction.
Other energy supplies, such as natural gas or solar power, might prove cheaper or more abundant than expected.
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