Perhaps most important, current retail petrol prices are readily visible.

British spread betting markets for home prices, and some retail online markets, have never amounted to much either.

On 17 April 2007, CPI inflation was reported at 3.1 (inflation of the Retail Prices Index was 4.8 ).

Cap and trade can only work by raising energy prices.

Energy and high fuel prices were crucial factors affecting development.

The retail sector is a huge source of inefficiency that effectively places a massive tax on India s poor by driving up prices.

Soaring energy prices, for example, have become a leading inflation risk.

The higher prices of food and energy depress real incomes further.

If we were to consider retail prices and the wider impacts on the environment, including climate change, the figure would be much higher.

With higher energy prices, many Russian officials are enjoying their renewed power.

The struggle to meet rising food and energy prices is hard enough.

Rich country consumers are responding to higher energy prices, and it helps.

By the same token, soaring energy prices shifted purchasing power from the United States and Europe to oil exporters, who, recognizing the volatility of energy prices, rightly saved much of this income.

Food and energy prices are more likely to be affected by monetary policy.

It is clear why the state budget depends almost totally on energy prices.

While it persisted, expenditures swelled but were manageable until, suddenly, energy prices collapsed.

NEW YORK The world economy is being battered by sharply higher energy prices.

Alternative sources to Russian energy are not the only means to decrease prices.

By liberalizing energy prices, governments allowed markets to encourage conservation and new supply.

Likewise, modern energy crops increase deforestation, displace agriculture, and push up food prices.

The agenda to address climate change overlapped with the imperative for greater energy efficiency in the wake of high energy prices.

And higher oil prices mean a greater incentive to invest in energy R D.

Then there is the energy issue. High oil prices have resurrected an old vulnerability.

While energy prices remain high by historical standards, Gazprom now operates at a loss.

In many markets, consumers (particularly retail customers) do not face real time pricing at all, but pay rates based on average annual costs or other constructed prices.

In particular, thanks to massive liquidity, energy prices are now rising too high too soon.

Our goals should be reliable supplies of energy that are environmentally safe at affordable prices.

Rising energy prices already point in this direction, but this knowledge has yet to register.

Belarus s economy can function only if Russia subsidizes energy prices and allocates non repayable credits.

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We need to make certain that market prices for energy use reflect the true social costs of using energy, so that energy users and energy suppliers make better choices regarding energy efficiency, the development of alternative energy sources, and the adoption of environmentally safe technologies.

With energy prices moving center stage, there is a danger that already weak incentives for investment in low carbon energy will be further undermined.

Another new dimension of the energy security problem is the manner in which high prices and increased reserves have transferred power to energy producing countries.

Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

Rising food and energy prices pushed inflation up to 9.7 in May, from 8.2 in April.

Steadily rising prices of raw materials, agricultural products, and energy already reflect fears about future shortages.

With 15 million retail outlets, India has the highest retail outlet density in the world.

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The reasons for this have not changed rising demand for energy, alongside concerns about climate change, volatile fossil fuel prices, and the security of energy supplies.

Furthermore, it was decided that further investigations to test the recommended retail price regime were necessary in order to ensure that realistic market prices prevailed in the market in Zambia.

But higher energy prices, by themselves, will not cause the ECB to pull the interest rate trigger.

And, given rising global demand for oil, particularly in developing countries, energy import prices will remain high.

Lenders provide money when times are good, but want their money back when, say, energy prices plummet.