Few politicians dare touch rigid labour laws or giveaways, such as free electricity to farmers.
In particular, it needs to scrap its populist policy reintroduced in 2005 of providing farmers with free electricity.
We don't expect free electricity or free public transport, so why should people get free internet?
Depressingly, the first act of the new Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was to restore free electricity to some farmers.
Despite running a pork-free election campaign (while his rival Congress Party was promising voters free electricity), Naidu won by a landslide.
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Billionaire Silicon Valley tech investor Peter Thiel has funded a Canadian engineer trying to tap the power of tornadoes to generate carbon-free electricity.
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Locals in the zone even receive free electricity from Lebanon.
The package follows another new measure announced by Mr Reddy - the free supply of electricity to small farmers and poor families.
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity.
Meanwhile, iBamboo launched an electricity-free iPhone speaker made from a single piece of bamboo.
In July 2012 Humala introduced a program to provide low-income Peruvians with discounted electricity and free liquid-natural-gas powered cooking stoves.
This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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The same is true in some restaurants and banks, which are giving free access to their electricity outlets, although others are charging for the service.
Paradoxically, Iran's assertion, strongly repudiated by the Bush administration, that its nuclear-based electricity will free hydrocarbon supplies for export, has an inherent logic (notwithstanding the suspicion aroused by Iran's nuclear strategy).
Pols and power bureaucrats have been seized with the notion that the generation of electricity can be free of bureaucratic oversight but that the transmission and distribution of power must remain in a regulatory straitjacket.
For the first 35 miles, the Volt can drive gas- and tailpipe-emissions free using a full charge of electricity.
For the first 35 miles, the Volt can drive gas- and tailpipe-emissions-free using a full charge of electricity stored in its 16-kWh lithium-ion battery.
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Rather, the very best regulator of data-center behavior, and the very best guarantor of ongoing innovations in ongoing reductions of data-center electricity consumption, is free-market capitalism.
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Thus taxing electricity will do nothing to free us from dependence on foreign petroleum.
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Apart from their wages agreed by the government - and their homes - they get free rations, wood for cooking and electricity.
But with coffee shops increasingly covering up power outlets, electricity was already ceasing to be free in many cases.
The same skeptics say that electricity should not be left to free markets to determine how it will be allocated and priced.
Free permits for electric utilities will help keep electricity prices low.
Tariffs for using utilities and the infrastructure are extremely low: local calls are usually free, gas prices artificially cheap and wholesale electricity costs about a tenth of the average European level.
Big-government advocates are pointing to California's electricity debacle as an example of how free markets sometimes mess up, big time.
Competition between political parties at elections in offering ever-bigger subsidies has driven down the price of electricity to absurd levels (it is free for farmers in some states).
The red-and-black Acehnese flag has now appeared fluttering from mosques and electricity pylons and the rebels of the Free Aceh Movement, suppressed for a decade, have launched attacks on army units and government buildings.
And if cars switch from oil to electricity, the demand for power generated from carbon-free sources will increase still further.
Giving the permits away free will affect the profits of Duke Energy, not the retail price of electricity.
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