The attraction of cap and trade systems is that they provide a more certain environmental outcome (a set level of allowable emissions), but at the cost of price volatility.
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The former is considered by many to be a form of global currency while the latter tends to track its price at a fraction of the cost.
The cost of producing fuel at a German plant was soon ten times the price of gasoline shipped from the ports of the Gulf of Mexico.
So Amazon will undoubtedly continue to aggressively price its tablets at around the cost of making them, thereby creating an extremely low price umbrella for everything but the newest iPads.
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The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of health care, the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit.
Be it pig roasts or text messages, you still have to make or sell something enough people want at a price that exceeds the cost of making or selling it to them.
Concerns over the surging cost of Brent crude are growing as analysts warn that Europe could be at the center of an oil-price shock.
Democratic opponents attacked the measure as a "Trojan horse" that will serve to dismantle Medicare, while some conservative Republicans lashed out at the "enormous cost" of the proposal, suggesting it could exceed the current price tag.
"My concern is that if it is fixed at the cost of abandoning the democratic rules of the group, that would too high a price to pay, " Piccone said.
We honestly believe, as do most analysts, that it's not too long into the future before the price curves of technologies like standard photovoltaic solar and some upcoming breakthroughs are at cost parity with conventionally -- like, coal-burning-generated electricity.
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His conclusion: Disney should charge what the traffic will bear at the gate, then cut the price of individual rides down to their (very low) marginal cost.
That means that it will almost certainly get the exclusive right to sell a copy of Lipitor for six months, a period during which it will be able to price a generic at almost the full cost of Lipitor.
The Nextant 400XT can can fly faster, farther, and at a lower cost than many of the latest small-cabin jets and at about half the acquisition price.
Since price matching can only be done at the cost of margins, we think that Best Buy will report lower year-over-year gross margins for the quarter.
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Video Unlimited will allow you to rent moves at a cost that is generally about a third of the price to buy, although I would want to see a lot more HD content to go with the 1080p screen on the handset.
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By improving transparency, South Carolinians can see for themselves the quality and cost of the services available to them and ultimately drive a market for the best care at the best price.
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"If we sell it at high moisture, then they deduct the price because of the cost of drying it down, " Schmidt said.
Typically, a patent troll will offer a startup an opportunity to settle at the outset usually for a price which is lower than the cost of defending the lawsuit.
But for gasoline blenders, ethanol at equal to or higher than the cost per gallon of gasoline was not a price that would compel them to buy ethanol.
This marginal reasoning explains why Kuwait, which is renowned for its oil reserves, still has imports at some point, the marginal cost of domestic production is more expensive than the world price.
Banks may even be willing to give away WebPad devices featuring pre-installed banking applications to its customers for free, while ISPs are looking at business models such as subsidizing the cost of the device to make the initial purchase price more attractive for consumers, he added.
While the policies implemented by the central government in 2011 have been effective in stabilizing residential price growth across the country, they have come at some cost to the coffers of the local governments.
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So, OK, change the cost of provision: does that change the demand in the market at any particular price level?
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The new features come at no additional immediate cost, with Bloomberg sticking to its regular program of price hikes pegged to inflation every two years.
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And airlines have raised the price of award tickets by introducing higher-cost award tiers, reducing availability at the lowest award level.
The plan would open up the delivery of those benefits to a broad range of insurers, who would compete to offer those benefits at the most cost-efficient price.
The price of providing respite care at Cheviot View and Castledene is "considerably higher" than the average cost charged by other providers, it said.
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Intelligent matching-systems of this kind mean that there is almost no cost to finding the best price available at a given time.
He sees America as a great forcing house of innovation that can provide anything you want at the best possible price but at personal cost.
Although several drug companies have agreed to supply the drugs to African countries at manufacturing cost (the price in the rich world factors in development costs as well), that is still beyond the purse of any but the middle classes in Africa.
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