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The price isn't all energy, though, a lot of things come down more to labour cost.
But again, the cost of labor is the cost of feeding and housing and clothing and transporting the laborer. There may be some residual cost, reflected in the amount of money the laborer can save to spend on energy later in her life, but that's about it.
It's all energy. The biggest exception I can think of is the invisible environmental cost which can remain hidden and unaccounted for over a very long time. It will eventually have to be paid too, in energy, but too many people think that the debt will come due so far in the future that its present value is practically zero.
