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Line 1: '''Too cheap to meter''' describes a [[commodity]] so inexpensive that it is cheaper and less bureaucratic to simply provide it for a [[flat fee]] or even [[gratis\|free]] and make a [[Profit (economics)\|profit]] from associated services. It can also refer to services which it would cost more to itemize bills for the service than it costs to provide the service in the first place, thus it being simpler and less expensive to just provide it in a bundle along with other services. Although sometimes attributed to [[Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring\|Walter Marshall]], a pioneer of [[nuclear power]] in the United Kingdom,<ref>''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/792209.stm Nuclear doubts gnaw deeper]'' - [[BBC News]], Thursday, 15 June 2000</ref> the phrase was coined by [[Lewis Strauss]], then Chairman of the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission]], who in a 1954 speech to the National Association of Science Writers said:

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