We can liquefy the gas and ship it as LNG but this too is expensive.

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The point, the strategy behind this, is that the iPhone is simply too expensive for large parts of the market.

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This worked well in the laboratory, but ruthenium is too expensive for mass deployment.

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Because, while we all no doubt sympathise with restaurateurs struggling in the face of chastened bankers and shrivelling corporate-expense accounts, there's no doubt that this is an excellent time to try those establishments previously considered too expensive or too snooty.

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No doubt there is one, but this isn't due to money being too expensive as much as it's the result of capital flowing to non-productive, hard assets that tend to perform best when money is losing value.

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This is fine for flying tiny microchips into Europe or America from Asia, but too expensive for clunkier goods.

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It's a very expensive proposition, and the fact is that this is a system that itself is too big.

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Honda tells me that this is because none of the other cars in the Civic lineup offer it, and it's too expensive to include in a single model.

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