[Towaway69]

Would that not imply eating the cheapest food available would also be the healthiest?

Buying the cheapest car would be the most resource efficient and most reliable car?

The implication being that cheap is best, which it most certainly isn’t. In your case cheap = fewest resources used.

But cheap could also be achieved by tax breaks, financial trickery (shifting debt around shell companies), producing products in cheap labour countries and then shipping it around the world as opposed to producing locally with less resources required for transportation.