Hav-A-Tampa officials said a new federal tax dramatically increased the price of their cigars and reduced consumption.
Like the public benefits, the programs and policy incentive mechanisms for promoting self-generation and reduced consumption are sufficiently similar to warrant bundling these measures under the same regulatory umbrella.
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In fact, the rate at which the economy can grow will be hampered by a reduced willingness of banks to lend, a reduced amount of spending by federal, state and local governments, reduced consumption from many still-financially-overstretched American citizens who also face elevated gas prices, and from a reduced willingness of businesses to invest in the face of uncertainty regarding future tax and regulatory policies.
This requires investment in high-end servers, but offers major benefits in terms of reduced power consumption, better performance and reduced space requirements.
In its own facilities, Facebook has reduced water consumption with dual-flush toilets and motion-sensor faucets.
Fortunately, there's Bluetooth 4.0 support, which offers speedy performance with reduced energy consumption.
Recently, though, low natural gas prices and reduced electricity consumption due to the recession have dampened demand for wind.
Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.
Over the last seven recessions before the latest one, reduced consumer consumption accounted for only 7.3% of the contribution to the negative GDP result.
Instead, the press has reported the findings at face value, and as if this is a study about the health benefits of reduced soda consumption.
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This would result in reduced fuel consumption per delivery and minimized greenhouse gasses as a byproduct of waste from overripe product going to the municipal dumps.
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Once again, the result is better-behaved transistors and reduced power consumption as little as half that demanded by old-style transistors, says the firm, with no loss of performance.
They include representatives of members of The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), who argue they should receive compensation because of the impact reduced oil consumption would have on their economies.
As you'll no doubt be aware having read our headline above, there actually isn't a 1GHz CPU at the helm, as AnandTech and IOSnoops report the dual-core ARM chip is dynamically clocked around 900MHz, likely in search of reduced power consumption.
"Today, our year-long vision of creating a 5mm thin hybrid hard drive in 2.5'' form factor with increased storage capacity and reduced power consumption at a lower cost for manufacturers has become a reality, " said Dr. Pantelis Alexopoulos, Executive Director of DSI.
In other words, if the price of Chinese goods to American consumers increased by 21 percent (on average) and Americans reduced their consumption of Chinese goods by less than 21 percent, then demand would be considered inelastic, the price effect would dominate, and total import value would rise (adding to the trade deficit).
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It found that a 1% rise in government consumption as a share of GDP eventually reduced private-sector consumption by 1.9%.
In an initial test on 200 insomniacs, it reduced sleeping pill consumption by 40% in five weeks.
Low household energy costs dampen demand for energy efficiency and most home-appliance manufacturers have hugely reduced their energy consumption in other ways.
The story sounds even better at the Tennessee Valley Authority, which in 2012 reduced its coal consumption by 16% to about 30 million tons.
Which leads to one to wonder: Should the supply of beer be competitive or should we tolerate a little market power along with reduced levels of consumption?
Additional carbon footprint savings will come from reduced office energy consumption, roadway repairs, urban heating, office construction, business travel and paper usage (as electronic documents replace paper).
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In addition, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, the U.S. has reduced its energy consumption per unit of GDP by nearly 50% since 1980 and 20% since 1999.
As the U.S. has reduced its coal consumption, it has increased its coal exports to Europe, which rose 23% in 2012 from a year earlier, according to federal statistics.
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The Panamera S E-Hybrid expands upon the driving performance of the previous generation, while fuel consumption is reduced when compared to the previous Panamera S Hybrid.
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Dietary fat and simple-carbohydrate consumption be reduced in combination with drug therapy to lower the risk of pancreatitis for patients with severe and very severe hypertriglyceridemia.
Lutz Kilian, at the University of Michigan, suggests that unless energy consumption is reduced or new supplies found a full recovery from the financial crisis will push the oil price back to its highs of mid-2008.
But, with smart planning and advanced energy modeling, energy consumption can be reduced at the outset.
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