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.
To fund this growth, there is already a government-DPJ decision to increase the consumption tax to 10 percent by the middle of the decade.
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.
Again pundits derided the dissent, this time for getting hung up on the infamous hypothetical of government-compelled broccoli consumption and stubbornly failing to acknowledge that the individual decision not to buy health insurance (inaction again) is itself a regulable commercial act.
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Even when Chinese leaders make the decision to implement the structural changes to increase consumption as opposed to providing temporary incentives for appliance purchases it will take at least a decade to get consumers into the shops in sufficient numbers.
His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.
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.
Filburn, a 1942 decision upholding a federal law prohibiting a farmer from growing wheat entirely for his own consumption.
"All our activities from consumption to production are unalterably changed, " says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics.
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