首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Just two weeks ago the federal government canceled " FutureGen," a government-industry project to develop technologies for burni
Just two weeks ago the federal government canceled " FutureGen," a government-industry project to develop technologies for burni
admin
2013-01-28
115
问题
Just two weeks ago the federal government canceled " FutureGen," a government-industry project to develop technologies for burning coal without emitting copious greenhouse gases, demonstrating that the government is incapable of making a credible promise to help industry develop these badly needed technologies over the long haul. 46)
Similarly, legislation late last year to increase the fuel economy of U. S. automobiles will have such a small effect on the vehicle fleet that it will barely change the country’s dependence on imported oil and will have almost no impact on carbon emissions.
Democrats and Republicans alike claim they want to end the country’s dependence on foreign oil, but neither party actually does much about it.
47)
The only policies that survive in this political vacuum are those that target narrower political interests with more staying power.
Thus America has a highly credible policy to promote corn-based etha-nol. As an energy policy it is a very costly and ineffective way to cut dependence on oil. As a global warming policy it is even less cost effective, since large-scale ethanol doesn’t help much in cutting warming gases. 48)
Similarly, the United States has a stiff subsidy for renewable electricity—mainly wind and solar plants—because environmentalists are well organized in their support for it.
The coal industry periodically, gets money for its favored technologies, as in FutureGen, but even that powerful lobby has a hard time getting the government to stay the course.
Europe is in danger of contracting the same affliction. 49)
To be sure, most European countries long ago started taxing energy as a convenient wray to raise revenues, which fortuitously also makes energy more costly and creates a strong incentive for efficiency.
That approach did not originate as an energy policy, but it has emerged as a keystone of Europe’s more successful efforts to tame energy consumption. 50)
And Europe is in the midst of shifting policymaking from the individual countries to Brussels, which may create a more coherent approach.
But despite these advantages, Europe is notable for its inability to be strategic. For example, Brussels is touting a new pipeline called Nabucco that would help Europe cut its dependence on Russia for its natural gas. So far, Brussels is good at talking about the Nabucco dream but can’t agree on a route, financing, or even on where to get the gas that would replace Russia’s.
All this means that the underlying forces that are causing high demand for energy (and high prices) and emitting greenhouse gases will be hard to alter. The effort to solve global warming might change this pessimistic iron rule of energy policy, because the environmental community that is the core of the coalition in support of global warming policy is becoming much stronger and has shown staying power. For the moment, however, that is a hypothesis to be proved.
选项
答案
在这种政治真空中得以存留下来的唯一政策,是那些对狭隘的政治利益有持续作用的政策。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Dzd4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
ItisgenerallybelievedthatinappliedinvestigationItcanbeinferredfromthetextthat
Today,therearetwoapproachestohowAmericansperceivethemselves.(46)"Youcanconsideryourselfvaluablenomatterwhat
Whatmaybetheattitudeofmanypublic-serviceworkerstowardsthestrategyofBlair’sgovernment?TheviewsofGordonBrowna
America’scentralbanksentaclearmessagethisweek.Forthesecondconsecutivemeeting,theFederalOpenMarketCommittee,th
Manfirstappearedonearthhalfamillionyearsago.Thenhewaslittlemorethanananimal;butearlymanhadseveralbigadva
ElouiseCobellcriticizedtheInteriorDepartment’sBIAfor______.WhichofthefollowingisTRUEaccordingtothetext?
Cultureshockmightbecalledanoccupationaldiseaseofpeoplewhohavebeensuddenlytransplantedabroad.Likemostailments,
Thefactthatblindpeoplecan"see"thingsusingotherpartsoftheirbodiesapartfromtheireyesmayhelpustounderstandou
随机试题
在物理学上,把人们引向一个新的王国——微观世界的是()。①居里夫妇②爱因斯坦③吉尔伯特④伦琴
患儿,5岁,1个月来经常眨眼、耸鼻子,努嘴,扮鬼脸、甩胳膊、踢腿、踢肚子等,这些症状一天内多次发生,由家长送入医院。关于该患儿的护理,下列说法错误的是()
关于原发性血小板减少性紫癜的脾切除冶疗,错误的是
患者,男,16岁。洗浴时无意中触及右膝下内侧硬性突起,无疼痛,膝关节运动正常。该患者最可能的诊断是
某大型跨江桥梁的修建工程,要进行总进度目标论证,将编制总进度纲要论证总进度目标实现的可能性。下列各项工作中,属于在总进度纲要中应明确的有()。
机构投资者为降低自身所承受的风险多实行多种投资产品组合投资的投资方式,这体现出机构投资者()的特征。
一、根据以下资料,回答下列题。2009年前三个季度,我国规模以上电子信息制造业扭转了上半年下滑的势头,但比去年同期增速下降10个百分点以上。重点产品增长面逐步扩大。9月,重点监测的27个产品中,14个产品产量出现正增长,比上半年多了3个产品;其中
内存按字节编址从B3000H到DABFFH的区域其存储容量为___________。
Someyearsago,onthewindsweptAtlanticcoastofIreland,acoupleofelderfarmerscameuptomyfamily’scottage.Therewas
WhyIBecameaTeacher:toPassonMyLoveofLiteratureA)Likelotsofpeople,IneverthoughtI’dbeateacherwhenIwasat
最新回复
(
0
)