However, this quickly brings us to the second reason to support video, which is a supply-driven value-add and competitive differentiator.
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"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands.
"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands (nyse: STZ - news - people ).
The gas filling stations supply to vehicles driven by compressed natural gas, and the government hopes that the gas saved will be used to increase electricity production in gas-fired power plants.
The shuttering of various European and U.S. northeast refinery operations of late due to unfavorable margins and a difficult lending environment could also eventually lead to supply-constraint driven gasoline price spikes when demand starts to pick up again towards the summer peak driving season period, say analysts.
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The offsetting of refinery shutdowns in the Northeast by, for instance, the expansion of Motiva Enterprises a joint venture between Shell (RDS.A) and Saudi Refining of its Port Arthur, Texas refinery to 600, 000 barrels a day, may also help prevent supply-constraint driven gasoline prices spikes.
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Health care is often driven by supply: A new cardiac center opens and suddenly more people need stents.
Electricity is a commodity that is driven by supply and demand.
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Vale executives said the recent correction in China spot prices was driven by higher supply from Australia and India and credit restrictions that cut into Chinese demand.
Technologies need to advance in a logical supply-and-demand-driven order rather than the fits and starts of porkbarrel science.
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Half of all care consumed seems to be driven by physician and hospital supply, not patient need or demand.
The increase in cotton prices have largely been driven by imbalances on the supply side with a combination of droughts in China, the largest producer, and unseasonal rains in India, the second largest producer.
This imbalance of supply and demand has compressed vacancy rates and driven up rents nationwide.
However, the fall in prices may be driven mostly by expectations of increased supply, especially from Russia, rather than of falling demand.
I'm glad Jason raised the relationship between declining business formation and the credit market, because I'm skeptical that the recent decline he notes is driven primarily by changes in the supply of credit.
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The genesis of the supply side revolution was high taxes and an inflation driven decade of stagnation in the Seventies.
The production sector increased by 1.1%, primarily driven by growth in electricity and gas supply, and construction also grew by 0.6% following a period of contraction.
Market-driven demand grew while government-controlled supply shrank.
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The bull market in energy commodities has driven up transportation costs for manufacturers with global supply chains, leading some machinery companies to produce more in the U.S. for sale in North America.
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There is little chance of further supply-side reforms under Angela Merkel's consensus-driven grand coalition.
It's a demand-driven commodity, where the reserve margin on the supply side has shrunk to under 2 million barrels per day.
Predictions of easing gasoline prices are also being driven by views that there could be potential oil supply overhang concerns coming up in the absence of a strong and immediate message by the successor of Saudi King Abdullah, reinforcing the adherence to self-imposed production limits by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members.
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Reporting compliance requirements also show up in the supply chain in ways that are not related to regulations but are driven by consumer preferences for green and sustainable products.
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When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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The metals and coal sectors aren't demand driven, but they are price sensitive to the dearth of incremental supply, particularly coal, iron ore and even copper with all its mine outages.
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.
That's because Asia's banks will supply less and shareholders will offer more capital in a consumer- and market-driven economy.
Food and energy, driven by (notoriously volatile) commodity prices, can experience short-lived supply disruptions tied to weather, geopolitics, technology failures, etc.
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