Category: Costly

  • The costly vegetables at odds with record-low inflation

    Vegetable prices remained high due to supply and production disruptions, despite overall inflation falling to a 12-year record low of 3.6% in September. Prices of vegetables, including onions, cabbage, spinach, tomatoes, potatoes and carrots, rose by 22.1 percent on average in September compared to the same period last year, although…

  • Gov’t report slams rooftop solar panels as too costly

    Flooding the roofs of homes in the country with solar panels would cost the economy more than NIS 1.1 billion a year, compared to using very large solar fields in the Negev, according to a report by the National Economic Council, headed by Prof. Avi Simhon, on the economic feasibility…

  • Gov’t report slams rooftop solar panels as too costly

    Flooding the roofs of homes in the country with solar panels would cost the economy more than NIS 1.1 billion a year, compared to using very large solar fields in the Negev, according to a report by the National Economic Council, headed by Prof. Avi Simhon, on the economic feasibility…

  • Costly fuel looms on push for bigger oil dealer profits

    Kenyans are set to pay an extra Sh4.45 per litre of fuel if a proposal in a study commissioned by the Energy Regulatory Authority is adopted, raising concerns about pressure on cost-of-living measures. The study by consultants Corrent Technologies and Channel Consulting Limited proposes increasing margins offered to oil marketing…

  • Delay in energy transition could be ‘costly and disorderly,’ BP says in annual outlook

    SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images Oil futures gave up early gains and settled lower on Friday, capping off the first weekly loss after four straight positive weeks, as the recent rally in prices allowed traders to to exit their positions with healthy profits. Prices are supported by A weak U.S. inflation…