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Obama Declares New Autocar Tail Gas Emissions and Economy Energy Standard As he stood in the rose garden on May 19 with stat
Obama Declares New Autocar Tail Gas Emissions and Economy Energy Standard As he stood in the rose garden on May 19 with stat
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2013-05-04
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Obama Declares New Autocar Tail Gas Emissions and Economy Energy Standard
As he stood in the rose garden on May 19 with state governors and auto executives, Obama announced tough new national standards for automobile emissions and fuel efficiency that essentially settled a long-running battle between environmentalists and the ear industry in favor of the greens. Under the proposed rules, which would begin to take effect in 2012, new cars and trucks will need to have an average fuel efficiency of 35.5 m. p. g. (6.6 L/100 km) by 2016— almost 40% cleaner than they are today. The regulations would be the first national limit on U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions and could presage further action to curb climate change.
For years, U. S. automakers have fought tougher regulations by arguing that Americans tend to prefer larger, gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks. That’s not always true: when gas prices were at an all-time high last summer, sales of SUVs were down considerably, while hybrids flew off dealer lots. Since then, prices at the pump have dropped—and so has the appetite for small cars. As long as the price of gas remains fluctuating, it’s far from certain that Americans will buy the more efficient cars and trucks the new standards will require automakers to produce. In the long run, though, a gas tax that puts a floor on fuel prices may be the only way to break America’s SUV addiction. But Obama has said he’s not interested. "You need a price signal. Regulations alone won’t do it," says Lester Lave, director of the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative.
Even more important is the ongoing debate in Congress over carbon cap-and-trade legislation. Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey have hammered out a bill that would reduce U.S. carbon emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. It faces an uphill battle in Congress, opposed by nearly all Republicans and many Democrats from coal-dependent states. Pushing it through will require an act of political will, but while Obama has praised the controversial bill, some environmentalists complain the White House has done too little behind the scenes to defend it. "The world was hopeful that Obama would care about global warming, but he has been completely missing in action on this," says Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace U.S.A.
Radford is not being entirely fair: Obama has increased alternative-energy funding to record levels and assembled a green team of advisers. They include his Energy Secretary, the Nobel Prize-winning Steven Chu, who told me recently that "the climate-change problem is at least equal in magnitude" to World War II. He’s right. And if Obama wants to win this war, he’s going to have to fight, not just make peace.
Which of the following is the author’s view on President Obama?
选项
A、He is trying to keep his promise to cope with global warming.
B、He is not doing anything to solve climate change problem.
C、He is not capable of solving the global warming problem.
D、He is not taking the right step to cope with global warming.
答案
A
解析
观点态度题。文章第三段结尾指出,有人指责奥巴马总统没有采取任何行动来解决全球变暖问题,紧接着在第四段开头作者指出:这种说法对奥巴马来说并不完全公平,并且列举了奥巴马为了应对气候变化已经做出的努力,由此我们可以推断,作者认为奥巴马总统还是在尝试解决全球变暖问题,因此正确答案为[A],同时排除[B];作者并没有对奥巴马总统的能力作评价。故排除[C];也没有任何内容暗示奥巴马总统所采取的措施是不正确的,故排除[D]。
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