This would provide economies of scale and the security of in-house supply.
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There are safety measures you can take, by preparing your house with a supply of water or food, as though you were preparing for a winter storm.
And, given the scale of excess supply, house prices are likely to overshoot.
Maybe it can create an uninterrupted power supply for my house that isolates my dependence on the grid for a few hours.
The Automotive Supply Park will house a number of factories producing parts for local car manufacturers, including Vauxhall and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
With its vast tracts of uninhabited land and its lack of clout in Washington, Nevada is the target of federal plans to house the country's supply of nuclear waste.
She got rid of the cartel of building societies that had rationed the supply of credit to house-buyers in Britain.
That supply of credit lifted house prices and spurred a boom in residential construction, which filled the gap in demand left by sluggish business investment.
This thing is just a wee bit cumbersome: 700 square feet to create enough hydrogen to run a fuel cell car 10, 000 miles a year and supply electricity for the house.
Prior to the housing collapse, fluctuation in house prices was the familiar story of supply and demand.
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Government, regulators and the water industry were urged to make concrete plans for new supply networks in advance of house building, to ensure there are adequate water resources for the future.
Some 1, 000 U.S. ground troops are to deployed to Zaire and several thousand others are to be sent to the region to supply support activities, White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said.
Even if there were a sizeable increase in supply, the impact on house prices would be limited for some time because the number of new homes is so small compared with the existing stock.
The losses carry on down the line to the concessionaires who feed spectators, vendors who provide hundreds of portable toilets, rental car companies that supply vehicles, hotels that house pilots and crews, and providers of aviation fuel.
Yet a growing body of research suggests that the volatility of house prices is determined less by demand than by supply.
Tim Sneddon, head of environmental maintenance, said one permit would be delivered to each house in the area, but the council would supply additional permits if requested.
When a car is sitting in the garage, its fuel cells could supply the power needed to run a house--maybe even sell electricity back to the grid.
Ronald Dick, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Committee, told a House subcommittee hearing that the nation's water supply may seem to be a logical target for a terrorist attack.
The combination of increased demand and constraints on supply has pushed up the ratio of average house prices to average earnings in the city from 4.8 in 1990 to 7.6 now.
Supply-chain managers also should mine their in-house data thoroughly for signposts as to how they can strengthen relationships with key suppliers.
Ms Barker was investigating why the supply of new houses had responded so sluggishly to the house-price boom, with completions actually falling to a low of about 175, 000 in 2001, although they have since staged a recovery (see chart).
In the short term, the supply of housing is more or less fixed, so house prices are mainly driven by demand factors: namely, personal disposable income, real interest rates and the return offered by alternative investments such as equities.
Housing Minister Caroline Flint said communities often opposed house building in their areas, which was contributing to the lack of supply.
The new businesses that have sprung up, such as the hundreds of house-restaurants, or paladares, have come to rely on the mules to supply them.
However, the number of new house completions fell by 3% last year to 15, 900, while new housing supply also fell by 2% to 16, 882 units.
And rising house prices are likely to fuel wage increases to attract workers to areas where labour is in short supply.
Those crude market prices are established by global supply and demand curves that are well outside of the reach of Congress or the White House to affect very much.
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Nationally, house prices have fallen by some 3%, while the glut of unsold homes has risen to ten months' supply.
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