A. We are also faced with a big increase in energy costs.

Stocks have not been troubled by the recent increase in energy costs.

I have concerns with the significant increase in energy costs and its effects on the American economy and the family budget.

The increase in energy costs, which also includes natural gas, gasoline and heating oil prices, could slow economic growth around the world next year.

Lower prices for food and autos last month offset increases in energy costs.

Much of the rise came from a 1.5 percent increase in energy costs, which climbed after crude oil prices rebounded over the summer.

Every American household has been hit by the increase in energy costs and many by the negative wealth effect from the equity market.

With this guaranteed, long-term market, the Government hopes to find a buyer that will consider the plant a hedge against future increases in energy costs.

The sharp rise in producer prices, however, came largely on a 1.5 percent increase in energy costs, an often volatile category.

Price decreases in many industries appear to be offsetting some of the increases in energy costs, however.

Achievement of the targets set in the framework legislation must not impose a burden on consumers and firms because of an exhorbitant increase in energy costs.

The MWRD originally embarked on the project due to across the board increases in energy costs and the desire to become more environmentally-friendly.

The compromise was reached after industrial leaders and some politicians had expressed fears that a precipitate phase-out of nuclear power would lead to large increases in energy costs.

He credits slower growth to tighter federal monetary policy, substantial increases in energy costs and the psychological effects of what he called "the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble."

During the negotiations, some member states have expressed concerns about the increase in energy costs caused by the implementation of the package: the increase could be of 10% to 15% by 2020.

Furthermore, the EU's common agricultural policy will have to be adapted to a new economic and social climate at local and regional level, which will take into account the increase in energy costs.

Still, these are the households, often living from paycheck to paycheck, that are hit hardest by the rise in the overall inflation rate after companies pass through some of their increases in energy costs.

The wild rush of speculators, including foreign ones, and their pursuit of sky-high profits is setting the public against renewables as such, because the people are facing an unnecessarily large increase in energy costs.

At the same time, our domestic market is seeing an increase in energy costs and, rather than switching to renewables, people are instead opting for cheaper energy sources, which in our case often means low-grade brown coal.

The County's energy supplier buys its energy at auction, so Mirant must continue to sell its energy at market value, which means no discernible increase in energy costs will be felt by the counties residents.

School officials say they have little choice, because state law allows them to allocate only 2 percent of their annual budgets to contingency funds - too little, they say, to cope with problems like the recent sharp increases in energy costs.

For example, Mr. Horton said, while a small draft from around the perimeter of a single window or door might not, by itself, result in a noticeable increase in energy costs, small drafts from around all the windows and doors in a house could.