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Costs With Home Costs: This can translate into tangible benefits for commercial, school, municipal and home builders.
While environmentally sustainable construction may add up to 2% to the cost, the return on that investment is significant and ongoing.
The savings on energy costs begin immediately and will likely only increase over time as fuel costs continue to rise.
In addition to lower operating costs, building owners and home owners will likely experience higher resale value.
Another, and less attractive, characteristic of railroads is high fixed costs—costs that do not vary according to volume of traffic. These are estimated to be 65% to 80% of total costs. Thus railroads must maintain a high load factor to be economically viable.
Economy lodging is a relative matter in this rather expensive land, but again I would say "Compare costs with home costs and you will not feel that your travel overhead is high."
To name a few hotels of good but not luxury standing in the chief tourist centers of Italy is rather an arbitrary exercise, since there are literally scores of recommendable places, but I shall, at any rate, set down some names. |
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