The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.

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Although the 668, 000 chinook caught off Oregon and California in 2005 contributed less than 1% to America's salmon consumption last year, the council's decision is bad news for the 1, 200 or so fishing vessels along the west coast, and for their small ports.

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His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.

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Rather, economic growth is the result of hundreds of millions of individual decision-makers, each acting in their best interests to shift their consumption plans, saving, and investment in response to desirable opportunities that they face.

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Filburn, a 1942 decision upholding a federal law prohibiting a farmer from growing wheat entirely for his own consumption.

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"All our activities from consumption to production are unalterably changed, " says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics.

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