The authors point out that while the price of fuels may be increasing, it is but a small fraction of the cost of the actual services people use, from air conditioning to manufacturing.

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Digital distribution results in cost-savings for producers who can skip retail, skip shipping costs, and forego manufacturing the actual discs, but those savings need to be passed on (at least to some degree) to consumers to offset the eventual end of used games.

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