The sharp increase was due to government mandates on ethanol use, the so-called Renewable Fuels Standard.
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Now, due to government mandates in India, fewer people will be getting mobile ads.
Preferred government mandates like Clean Energy Standards or regulatory schemes like cap-and-trade will raise energy prices.
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The federal government mandates that drug makers generally give Medicaid a 23-percent discount.
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Systemization of healthcare has been slowly implemented over decades, but has rapidly accelerated with EHR adoption and government mandates.
Fuller says government mandates in Europe and China could help move the market along, as could more innovative financing models.
Archer Daniels Midland, the world's biggest ethanol maker, can't brew it fast enough because U.S. government mandates are creating huge demand.
While this seems radical, it is not, it s how it used to be before HMO and government mandates and controls.
CSR, Mr Benioff says he opposes government mandates to undertake such activities.
Both of their proposals include more government mandates for health care coverage.
Finally, China is focused on the need for innovation and has used a mixture of government mandates to encourage more domestic innovation.
"To call for 1970s-style government mandates is frankly dangerous in the wireless space, " says Joseph Farren, director of public affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association.
It's really an asset of market forces and to government mandates.
Thus, even if they were legal, government mandates are not needed.
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The U.S. was on a path to increase the use of solar electricity, thanks in most part to government mandates and incentives for renewable energy generation.
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Because the government mandates everything from train times to many ticket prices, operators of railway lines have few levers to pull in response to market fluctuations.
Calculating and complying with government mandates like 50% investment in back-end infrastructure means that someone has to monitor, analyze, comply and adjust things on an ongoing basis.
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Here is why: Before floated in the Shanghai and the Hong Kong Exchanges, Chinese banks operated as government departments, within a central planning environment of controlled interest rates and government mandates.
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Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ), the world's biggest ethanol maker, can't brew it fast enough because U.S. government mandates are creating huge demand.
The guiding principal in Europe has been government mandates.
While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal.
Nobody but government mandates this as a freebie.
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Neither firm mentioned a word about government mandates.
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Powerless to resist new EPA regulations while two Detroit companies were owned by the government, the industry knuckled under to government mandates forcing 35.5 mpg average fuel economy by 2016 and 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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The federal government mandates that hospitals keep patient privacy sacred under the 1996 Health Information and Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. But doctors and hospitals are bound by law in some cities and states to report every gun-violence incident.
The government mandates the amount that is produced in the United States each year, and the Environmental Protection Agency recently granted a waiver, allowing the percentage of ethanol that can be used in some cars to rise from 10% to 15%.
Unlike Democrats, Republicans support clean energy through regulatory reform, government procurement mandates and market-based incentive programs.
At least two out of every five board members in Norwegian companies are women because a government regulation mandates a minimum of 40% of each gender on the boards of public companies.
"What we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates, " Douglas said.
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