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'''Too cheap to meter''' describes a concept in which a commodity is so cheap that the usual amounts a consumer needs are so small compared with bulk production costs that it is more cost-effective and less bureaucratic to simple provide it for a [[flat fee]] or even provide it free and make a profit from associated services.

#REDIRECT [[Nuclear power]]

The phrase originated with [[Walter Marshall]], a pioneer of [[nuclear power]] in the United Kingdom, who promised his countrymen that the energy produced by the new energy source would be "too cheap to meter".<ref>''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/792209.stm Nuclear doubts gnaw deeper]'' - [[BBC News]], Thursday, 15 June, 2000</ref>

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