时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(八月)


英语课

By Brian Padden
Irbil, Iraq
22 August 2006
 
watch Gasoline report


The Iraqi economy is suffering from a shrinking supply of subsidized fuel and the rising price of fuel that is readily available on the black market.  



A government-subsidized gasoline station has a long line of taxis and private vehicles  
  
At official fueling stations in Irbil, Iraq, gasoline is sold for less than 25 cents a liter.  The government sets the price and subsidizes the costs. But the supply of this cheap fuel is decreasing. Stations are being forced to ration 1 fuel.   There is plenty of gasoline to be found on the streets in the unregulated black market. That gasoline currently costs one dollar a liter.  


Taxi driver Hamza Karem says the gas shortage at official stations and the rising prices on the black market are very much related. "I'm wondering where they get the fuel on the streets.  Sure, they bring it from the official station because they can sell it for more."


 
Unofficial "gas stations" have gasoline available, but at incresingly higher prices
  
Abdullah Malah runs this black market supply depot 2. He admits he has purchased fuel from refineries 3 in Iraq that was intended for official fueling stations.  "I paid 300 Iraqi dinar for one liter when the official price was 250 dinar.  I paid for it and transported it back myself."


Some economists 4 say the growing corruption 5 of the fuel subsidy 6 program is just one reason why the government should let market forces determine the price of gasoline.  Salahaddin University economics professor Mohammed Barwary says the fuel subsidy program is also costing the Iraqi government billions of dollars.


 
Mohammed Barwary
  
"For each liter of gasoline, the government pays $1.50 in subsidy. If we calculate 10 million liters multiplied by 1.5, it will be $15 million just for the Kurdistan Region. If we collected for all of Iraq it will be two to three billion dollars.   We could use this money for development and other programs."


Professor Barwary says, over time, the subsidies 7 must be abolished. He believes the price of fuel must go up so that the energy industry can increase supply by building more refineries and fueling stations to meet demand. 



n.定量(pl.)给养,口粮;vt.定量供应
  • The country cut the bread ration last year.那个国家去年削减面包配给量。
  • We have to ration the water.我们必须限量用水。
n.仓库,储藏处;公共汽车站;火车站
  • The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
  • They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。
精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 )
  • The efforts on closedown and suspension of small sugar refineries, small saccharin refineries and small paper mills are also being carried out in steps. 关停小糖厂、小糖精厂、小造纸厂的工作也已逐步展开。
  • Hence the sitting of refineries is at a distance from population centres. 所以,炼油厂的厂址总在远离人口集中的地方。
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
n.补助金,津贴
  • The university will receive a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence.那个大学将得到一笔人工智能研究的补助费。
  • The living subsidy for senior expert's family is included in the remuneration.报酬已包含高级专家家人的生活补贴。
n.补贴,津贴,补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )
  • European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
  • Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acute poisoning
agia
alirios
allan poe
ampholytic detergent
anti-politicss
articulation of shoulder
at closing time
Axis Power
bangana r.
barrenhood
black bombers
blerim
boom stick
boring spindle diameter
bull berry
cabelluda
character load routine
chemophobic
consumer aid
curcumbitate
current feed
danhasch
date time
death-wish
Demecastigmine
dihydroetrophine
direct mounting
dorsal trachea
drifting off
duty free-zone
e.r.
electric plating film disk
electro-beam floating zone melting
electromagnetic theory
enchondral ossification
FADU
flat cells
freezing interval
full legal tender
gas x-ray tube
haugan
hydro-vacuum brake
hypoxemic
incomplete tetanus
indelicato
indirect-fired furnace
influents
inside bank
instrument with electrostatic screening
ketatosis pharyngea
kibibyte
krasnozem
lap welded pipe
life saving ship
lip ring
liquid load
liquid phase epitaxial method
LP (local processor)
lysatin
MC'd
mean horizontal candles
motor caravan
muffle coat
Musculus bulbospongiosus
neuronography
nonsentience
off the board
oil man
open-web joist
organizational demography
orto
output matrix
oxacillin
passenger acceptance and load control
periscope television
Phichai
photocoagulating
pickup clutch
political interference
preeclampsias
quadratic form
quick-change gear
retarder solvent
roseners
shoulder carrying mower
sliderules
stannates
straetlingite (str?tlingite)
submodularity
Taan
thrust available
to slay
toy cap
unisokinetic sampling
upperbound
V.I.P.
Velimlje
VFIB/CA
western whiptail
whirrrr
xanthic ferralsols