Few politicians dare touch rigid labour laws or giveaways, such as free electricity to farmers.
We don't expect free electricity or free public transport, so why should people get free internet?
Depressingly, the first act of the new Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was to restore free electricity to some farmers.
Despite running a pork-free election campaign (while his rival Congress Party was promising voters free electricity), Naidu won by a landslide.
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The package follows another new measure announced by Mr Reddy - the free supply of electricity to small farmers and poor families.
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity.
Meanwhile, iBamboo launched an electricity-free iPhone speaker made from a single piece of bamboo.
In July 2012 Humala introduced a program to provide low-income Peruvians with discounted electricity and free liquid-natural-gas powered cooking stoves.
This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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The same is true in some restaurants and banks, which are giving free access to their electricity outlets, although others are charging for the service.
Pols and power bureaucrats have been seized with the notion that the generation of electricity can be free of bureaucratic oversight but that the transmission and distribution of power must remain in a regulatory straitjacket.
For the first 35 miles, the Volt can drive gas- and tailpipe-emissions free using a full charge of electricity.
Rather, the very best regulator of data-center behavior, and the very best guarantor of ongoing innovations in ongoing reductions of data-center electricity consumption, is free-market capitalism.
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Thus taxing electricity will do nothing to free us from dependence on foreign petroleum.
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Apart from their wages agreed by the government - and their homes - they get free rations, wood for cooking and electricity.
But with coffee shops increasingly covering up power outlets, electricity was already ceasing to be free in many cases.
The same skeptics say that electricity should not be left to free markets to determine how it will be allocated and priced.
Free permits for electric utilities will help keep electricity prices low.
Tariffs for using utilities and the infrastructure are extremely low: local calls are usually free, gas prices artificially cheap and wholesale electricity costs about a tenth of the average European level.
And if cars switch from oil to electricity, the demand for power generated from carbon-free sources will increase still further.
Giving the permits away free will affect the profits of Duke Energy, not the retail price of electricity.
That is a staggering outlay, but it would free up American natural gas, which now generates 22% of the country's electricity, to be used for motor vehicles.
Finally I figured out how to rip the entire alarm system free of all household electrical wiring, which will probably prompt an expensive service call whenever electricity returns to my block.
C. will get photovoltaic panels free in exchange for signing a 20-year-power purchase agreement that locks in their electricity costs at a price about 10% below current rates.
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In September of last year, a massive explosion at a Pemex natural-gas plant near the northern border city of Reynosa killed 30 workers and caused critical shortages of the fuel, causing the state-run electricity company Comision Federal de Electricidad to switch to more expensive fuels in order to free up some natural gas for industry.
In the daytime, when the sun is at its strongest, solar panels like these and electricity stored in car batteries will be able to power the grid with affordable, emission-free energy.
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The methane gets converted to electricity and a family in an emerging nation can charge a phone, or other device, for free.
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