Inflation, the rise in the cost of fuel and the increase in VAT means that the cost of living has risen at a time when most of us are experiencing pay freezes, pay cuts and, in some cases, unemployment.
Overall, the incremental cost of doing things the right way results in just a small increase in the cost of producing gas from shale, in the range of 20-30 cents per MCF certainly not enough to derail the development of this resource, or permanently disadvantage it against other sources of supply.
The increase in the cost is what caused other people to start looking at this thing.
Imagine the increase in our cost of finance if we paid the same rate as Spain or Italy (three times as high) or Greece (double digits).
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The increase in cash cost per ton was due largely to fixed costs being spread over lower than expected production, as well as higher sales related costs related to higher average sales prices.
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Yet despite the 114% increase in the cost of company health plans over the last decade, many chief executives act as if there is nothing they can do to stanch the hemorrhage of red ink.
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Of the ten fastest-growing diseases identified from the AHRQ data and ranked by percentage increase in cost, only one-- hemorrhoids--was caused by an apparent increase in the cost of care per patient.
Meanwhile, parents in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan face a 7% increase in the cost of instrumental lessons this year.
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As we move forward on health care reform, it is not sufficient for us simply to add more people to Medicare or Medicaid to increase the rolls, to increase coverage in the absence of cost controls and reform.
The increase was mostly due to a 2.1% increase in energy costs, including a 4.7% increase in the cost of gasoline, and rising food prices, including a 13.6% increase in the price of fresh fruit and melons.
The 28% increase in cost per train kilometer was easily offset by the 78% increase in revenues.
However, some analysts warned that although the deal was a step in the right direction, it may increase Baidu's cost of operations in the short term.
On a more practical level, they understand that the national debt is bound to result eventually in an increase in the cost of their own borrowing.
According to CEO Jamie Sokalsky, the increase in total construction cost at Pascua Lama can be split approximately equally between the impact of the delay of first gold production to the second half of 2014, increased labor hours and installation rates.
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Can the U.S. consumer absorb a 34.4% increase in the cost of many goods, or will China continue to become a more cost-efficient manufacturer?
One vendor, HandEra , has recently announced that it is getting out of the business of selling Palm-based PDAs, specifically citing an increase in the cost to license the Palm OS as the reason.
At the time the States' economist, Dr Andy Sloan, said a doubling of the number of elderly people in Guernsey could result in a 15-20% increase in the cost of public services.
This has huge implications for the cost of providing pensions, as a one-year increase in average life expectancy is thought to increase the cost of paying that person's pension by 3%.
At the same time, Spirit pointed out, there was a 14.5 percent increase in the average economic fuel cost per gallon compared with the same period a year earlier.
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More spectrum concentration could mean even less customer choice and an increase in the cost of data plans.
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He called for an increase in the cost of foreign workers' permits, and for the money raised to go towards back-to-work training programmes.
There need not be any increase in the cost of delivering instruction for students to feel the impact of this political shell game.
They have raised their per-viewer rates 110%in the last ten years, despite a 30% decline in their prime-time audience, more than making up for a 30% increase in the cost of living.
The increase from 2010 to 2011 was primarily due to an increase in traffic, monetization improvements including new ad formats, global expansion, and added Google Network members, as well as an increase in the average cost-per-click paid by advertisers.
And there has been a lesser but still striking increase in the cost of insuring French government debt, which looks like a contributor to the big rise in the cost of insuring the debt of big French banks such as Societe Generale.
The bill also would accelerate the planned increase in the Social Security retirement age and adjust yearly cost-of-living increases to benefits.
For those who call such supply-demand projections folly, one need only look at the 50 percent decrease in the cost of natural gas brought about by a 20 percent increase in supply.
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And one of the sources of increased revenue, helping to offset the additional cost, is the increase in penalties on individuals and businesses.
Moreover, the issues that led to the BJP's humiliating performance have a national appeal: The party was punished for misgovernance in economic and social policies, particularly its failure to control the sharp increase in the prices of onions, a staple vegetable in India that affected the cost of many other goods.
Senior advocates, such as the AARP, have been lobbying for the payments, in part because Social Security recipients received no cost of living increase this year, for the second year in a row.
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