Productivity may be higher in Japan, but factories struggle with high taxes, high utility costs and costly shipping.
With weak consumer demand putting pressure on turnover, we need firm action on fuel and utility costs.
VAT, labour and utility costs, along with the strong pound (which makes imported flowers cheap), further handicap British farmers.
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This was despite firms reporting rising fuel and utility costs were making it more expensive to run a business.
It was driven largely by leverage on higher revenues, lower repair and maintenance expense, reduced credit card fees and utility costs.
And at a time when the economy is not doing very well, that can have a real pinch on families who are unemployed, or families who are underemployed, or families who are feeling the pinch from all sorts of different aspects of the economy -- rising tuition costs, rising utility costs, and things like that.
Not only are there utility and insurance costs to consider, but there are also maintenance costs.
He has gained angry middle-class voters, who blame the government for recent rises in fuel, utility and transport costs.
To the wife's amazement, the smaller income turned out to be more than enough for their "have-to" costs, such as utility bills, and their "want-to" costs, such as entertainment.
Higher rates may make it economical for them to sell their spare juice to other consumers despite high transmission costs on utility-owned grids.
The Worldwide Cost of Living survey is released twice a year by the EIU and compares hundreds of prices across 160 products and services, including items such as food, drink, rentals, utility bills, schooling costs and household supplies.
And there are other costs to public utility regulation, including long histories of scandal and corruption.
Even with that invisible support, it still costs more than most utility customers are willing to pay voluntarily.
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Then add in all of your regular monthly direct debits - mortgage or rent, council tax, insurances, car costs including petrol, utility bills, food etc.
There also are tax write-offs: As long as you use a portion of your home exclusively and regularly for business, you can deduct a percentage of your rent or mortgage interest, utility bills, repairs and other costs.
She says high fuel costs combined with other high utility bills, high unemployment and low wages leave many struggling.
The utility is also being pressed to cut costs and sell assets.
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Since John is still doing his laundry during peak load hours, the utility is paying top dollar in infrastructure costs and high-cost backup power plants.
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On the contrary, the concrete answer to how we define smart-grid investments will be resolved by every state utility commission when they evaluate utilities request to recover investment costs.
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There continues to be rapid growth of white-box or utility and basic tablets as well, given the low costs of production attained using components from Chinese chip producers Allwinner and Rockchip.
And he said, in future, Tory MPs would be allowed to claim only for basic costs on second homes such as rent and utility bills and not, as at the moment, for furniture or food.
The utility companies bluntly admit they'll pass on the extra costs to the bill payer.
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Dooley's group is particularly peeved that Georgia lawmakers are allowing the utility to charge its customers for the project's finance costs before it produces power.
For energy consumers, such a strategy, if successful, will inevitably mean shortages of energy, and higher costs at the fuel pump, in our home utility bills, at grocery and clothing stores, and in any other good or service whose cost is in any way dependent on the cost of energy or transportation.
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In reality, charter is often the least expensive option because there are no on-going fixed costs, and in the end, the per hour utility is good value.
In 1988, Public Service Company of New Hampshire became the first American utility since the Depression to go bankrupt, mostly because of the unexpected costs of a nuclear plant.
Higher fuel costs are not the only issue facing Tepco, Japan's biggest utility provider.
The Mumbai-based auto maker however has raised the prices of its sport-utility vehicles by between 20, 000 rupees and 35, 000 rupees because of higher costs and an increase in excise tax.
Cerberus got a company dependent on a narrow range of sales (trucks and sport utility vehicles), behind on key technologies, burdened by high U.S. labor costs (though the new labor contract with the UAW includes some savings) and having little presence outside of North America.
Value charging is a unique feature that harnesses the power of cloud computing to automatically charge the vehicle when utility rates are lowest, thus helping to minimize the cost to charge the vehicle and the potential ownership costs of an electric vehicle.
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