Though the bill stands no chance of passage, it illustrates the terrifying delusion that politicians think they know better than captains of industry how to maintain cheap energy supplies for America.
As the organic movement has long maintained, cheap industrial food is cheap only because the real costs of producing it are not reflected in the price at the checkout.
The car is cheap on gas, cheap to maintain, and cheap to buy.
While unglamorous, this application could make the large mouse colonies needed for genetic and pharmacological research easier to maintain and cheaper to operate.
The farmers maintain that cheap imports of potatoes, onions and milk have been driving them into insolvency.
The idea of learning by doing--along with a healthy desire to maintain a cheap scientific labor force--is the foundation of the research-based Ph.D., but the experiential approach works equally well for younger students, although you have to make adjustments for the lower motivation, less self-confidence, and greater dependence (on you, the teacher) of younger students.
It was amazing, Og thought, how hard one worked in order to maintain the cheap veneer of civilization.
They could, for example, maintain the cheap lending rates and make up the interest expense by raising car prices, notes McBride of Bankrate.
"They're cheaper to build, they're cheaper to maintain and they're cheaper to operate," said David Loeb, a real estate analyst at Robert W. Baird & Company.
By maintaining its cheaper currency, the lei, Romania has made its exports — two-thirds of which go to the euro zone — more competitive and secured a lower cost of living.
