It's almost like a chicken and egg (situation) at the moment.
It's what Professor Kemp calls "a chicken and egg situation": charging-points won't be installed up and down the country until there are plenty of electric cars on the roads.
Thus without minority fan interest, a chicken and egg dilemma arises in which there is little incentive and high risk for ownership, and subsequently sponsors to invest into minority drivers.
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The new study raises a chicken and egg question.
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Like all vicious cycles, the relationship between the declining fortunes of news outlets and the shrinking of their audiences is a difficult one to untangle, a chicken-and-egg problem.
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The debate over chip-enabled cards has been a chicken-and-egg issue in the U.S. for years.
As so often in the Israeli-Palestinian puzzle, it is a case of chicken and egg.
"It's a chicken-and-egg situation, " says Chulakorn Singhakowin, president of Bangkok-based Bank of Asia, which ABN-Amro took over.
And even if the U.S. did have a disproportionate number of tax breaks, there would still be a chicken-and-egg problem.
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Efforts to revive the economy are probably the most important thing anyone can do, but then we have a chicken-and-egg situation.
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"It's a chicken-and-egg scenario, " said Todd Christensen, a former NFL tight end.
Although there is plenty of private capital sloshing around, there is a chicken-and-egg problem: nobody wants to buy equity in an industry without enough capital.
Advocates of localism within the government here face a chicken-and-egg dilemma.
Look, if you made the choice to force this issue, the content providers would be forced to comply, so it's going to be a chicken-and-egg situation.
But it reflects a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.
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Like many projects in air-travel modernization, there's a chicken-and-egg question: Should airlines spend money on equipment before air-traffic control agencies prove they can work with it, or should air-traffic control service providers spend first and then wait for airlines to catch up?
Without the opening up of airspace, general aviation in China faces a chicken-and-egg problem: the lack of infrastructure on the ground limits the prospects for growth, but without more flights there is little reason to invest in such infrastructure, or in training schemes for pilots and technicians.
Pushing other essential infrastructure, such as clean drinking water, sewer systems and mass transportation, gets caught in a similar chicken-and-egg syndrome as the residents desperately want to join the grid but gatos of all kinds undermine the economics of the arrangement.
The relationship between the political views of U.S. Hispanics and the way Spanish-language media outlets cover the issues is a classic chicken-and-egg problem.
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People like me who would like there to be more dense, walkable neighborhoods in America face a kind of chicken-and-egg problem.
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Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.
Ameraucana will be displayed at a poultry show at the Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival in Moulton, Ala.
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Touting this as a solution to the chicken-and-egg problem that could inhibit early adopters from buying electric cars, NRG will place these stations within 25 miles of downtown Houston, at retail locations like Walgreens, Best Buy and near office buildings.
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