During October at least, Americans did not pay for current consumption out of savings.

You may, if you wish, use a 9V supply, but this does increase the current consumption and is not so economic.

We cannot continue on the current consumption and hydrocarbon-based growth path.

In fact this is an empirical issue - are taxes paid out of private savings or current consumption?

At current consumption rates our reserves would only last sixty days.

Average current consumption for low message rates is less than 60 microamps on some devices.

When the foreign lending stops, Americans will lose 4 percent of their current consumption.

The report said America's living standards had stagnated partly because of its spending on current consumption.

That will last nearly 250 years at current consumption and no one can see beyond that.

The pension burden can also be shifted in some measure to private systems, but only, again, at the cost of current consumption and political risk.