Energy and transport subsidies now cost 3.5% of GDP, according to Ecolatina, a consultancy.
And its proximity to China means that the cost of transport should not be prohibitive.
Kent County Council (KCC) wants to introduce a fee to help towards the cost of transport from September 2012.
Even when energy prices dip, as has happened lately, the cost to transport and process oil and gas doesn't waver.
The report says the government needs to do more about high rates of child poverty, as well as the high cost of transport and death rates from road accidents involving child pedestrians.
As with other Olympics, it is hard to quantify the opportunity cost of transport schemes that would not otherwise have been built, or a fancy velodrome that will struggle to recoup its original investment.
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NERA, an economic consultancy, concluded that haulage rates do not reflect the true cost of freight transport.
In its liquid form, it occupies much less space than gas, making it easier and more cost effective to transport.
The cost of private motoring is predicted to fall even further, widening the gap with the increasing cost of public transport.
Indiscriminate subsidies on energy, transport and water cost perhaps 4.5% of GDP.
Aside from rising gasoline prices the report showed that vehicle insurance premiums rose as did the cost of air transport and passenger vehicles, despite a dip seen in February.
The biggest environmental cost of food transport comes, not from international shipping, but driving to and from the supermarket, often with just a couple of carrier bags in the back of the car.
And while the rising cost of public transport is one of the key issues in the election, many analysts say the difference between the two men themselves will be the deciding factor for most of the city's 5 million registered voters.
The Conservative group on the assembly looks like pushing hard for more cost efficiency in Transport for London, a tougher stance against the unions, and early moves to reduce the mayor's share of the council tax through spending cuts.
American inflation slowed in August, thanks in part to smaller increases in the cost of energy and transport.
The only pristine rainforests are those which are simply inaccessible because of steep topography or the cost of extraction and transport to the coast.
Road transport is only one-third the cost of shipping goods to Pakistan by sea, via Dubai, as happens now.
Cost pressures from fuel, transport and food, plus only modest growth in employment, are expected to slow that to 0.7% next year.
The Royal Family and the Middletons will pay for the wedding itself, but the taxpayer will meet the cost of extra security and transport.
Dorset County Council approached the Department for Transport for a special grant towards the cost of the repair work but this has been turned down.
The further cuts are needed because of changes in the council tax benefit scheme and increases in the cost of waste disposal and transport, it is claimed.
Paul Stevens of Chatham House points out that in the early 1950s transport accounted for a third of the cost of Persian Gulf oil shipped to America.
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And for the cost of a cheap public transport ticket you can ride the harbor boat-bus around the entire channel and see the same sites as the tourist boats (and even hop off and on along the way).
Earlier this week, a Socialist MP made a written request to the transport secretary to obtain more information on the cost of the new plane. which was ordered two years ago.
The Transport committee will continue its probe into the cost of motor insurance with evidence from former Home Secretary and Justice Secretary Jack Straw, and then from the Motor Accident Solicitors' Society, AXA UK, and former MP Andrew Dismore, who now represents the Access to Justice Action Group.
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Clinical commissioning groups said it would mean such transport was available for longer hours at the same cost.
And, he says, the shares were less than half the cost of shares in other comparable British transport companies.
Mortgage costs in rural areas plus the cost of daily travel on the public transport to London will rapidly approach London mortgage costs.
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Even some large scale road transport fleets have switched to natural gas due to the cost effectiveness of the fuel.
Birns says that as Africa's cities get more populated and as demand for business is growing, the expansion of the low-cost model should revolutionize the continent's air transport in the same way that it did in North America, Europe and now in Asia.
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