"Their other kidney steps up production and they never notice the difference."

What Britain needs is to ramp up production of things that it can sell for a profit to other countries.

The carmaker plans to ramp up production of the 2014 model year to 5,000 units for 2013.

In past periods of high energy prices, "companies would have used cash flow to ramp up production," he said.

The hardest time was in 1988, when I decided we had to spend $250 million to ramp up production.

Boeing will ramp up production to 20 aircraft per year.

Indeed, several executives have called the Pentagon directly in the last week to say they were prepared to ramp up production.

As business pumps up production, there should be gains in hours worked, payrolls and, consequently, income.

"It is difficult to ramp up production, but we started that early on."

They intended to produce 15 aircraft in 2009 and ramp up production to 50 to 80 per year by 2012.