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Line 1: '''Too cheap to meter''' ~~is where~~describes a commodity is so inexpensive that it is ~~more cost-effective~~cheaper and less bureaucratic to simply provide it for a [[flat fee]] or even free and make a profit from associated 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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