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Obama’s Energy Policy While the Gulf of Mexico oil sp
Obama’s Energy Policy While the Gulf of Mexico oil sp
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2023-12-26
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Obama’s Energy Policy
While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that prompted the president’s speech is an unprecedented catastrophe, it’s nothing compared to what’s ahead if we keep pretending that fossil fuels are cheap. Addressing our habits of carbon consumption isn’t just the most important possible response to this particular disaster. It’s probably the most important issue this president, or any other for the next few decades, will face. Moreover, there’s a fairly clear solution that’s already been outlined: at the moment, there’s an implicit public subsidy for carbon use that enables our reliance, so the government needs to compensate for it by jack up the price of energy somehow. A cap-and-trade system is the preferred method here in much the same way that an insurance mandate was in healthcare reform: it’s a politically palatable partial measure, but far better than nothing.
But Obama gave a lame speech by only offering vague generalities about " increasing the cost of energy," failing to lay out the case for the reform that he knows perfectly well to be the only viable one. In fact, if the president decided to take the idea of energy reform to the people, he probably still wouldn’t get legislation passed. But even in failure, there’s something to be gained from speaking clearly and honestly to the public.
Woodrow Wilson was a generally pretty detestable guy, but there’s something Obama could learn from him. At the end of World War I, Wilson expended massive, futile effort trying to convince Americans that the League of Nations was the world’s only hope for peace and stability. The Republicans who opposed Wilson over the League succeeded, in large part, because a weary country wasn’t willing to accept an intellectual president’s high-flown scheme to prevent the recent disaster from repeating.
When the feeble League failed and the crisis of the 1930s developed into World War II, it offered a kind of perverse validation to Wilson’s effort. By forcefully campaigning for the United States to take a central role in global stability, he had elucidated the choices facing the American people. After World War II, the argument of 1919 reoccurred, but it was won by Wilson’s successor, Harry Truman. The reoccurrence of global war had validated Wilson’s argument, making it much easier for Truman to sell Americans on the Marshall Plan, NATO, the United Nations and, ultimately, the Cold War itself. By being ambitious and clear, Wilson lost, but his side won out in the long term for the same reason. [br] The author suggests the following measures to solve the oil spill crisis EXCEPT______.
选项
A、the government should remove public subsidy for carbon use
B、the government should compensate for the crisis
C、the government should raise the price of energy
D、Americans should tackle their addiction to fossil fuels
答案
B
解析
是非题型,答案是B。本题考查作者针对漏油事件为美国提出的建议方案,由response、solution、measure等词可判定解题点位于第一段。处理是非排除题需按提供的选择项逐一与原文相印证,由“there’s an implicit public subsidy for carbon use that enables our reliance”一句可确定A选项“取消能源补贴”符合作者的倾向主张;由by jack up the price of energy可知C选项“提高能源价格”无误;由“Addressing our habits of carbon consumption”一句可知D选项“美国人应调整高度依赖化石燃料的习惯”无误;由“there’s an implicit public subsidy for carbon use that enables our reliance,so the government needs to compensate for it”可知美国政府应当对“能源补贴导致美国依赖能源”这一现象予以补救,而非为漏油事件买单,可见应选B。本题核心:不因文中出现compensate for原词而被误导,正确理解代词it的所指。
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