英语演讲原文奥巴马演讲 建设21世纪清洁能源经济4.docx

1、英语演讲原文奥巴马演讲 建设21世纪清洁能源经济4奥巴马演讲 建设21世纪清洁能源经济4All right. Young lady right here. Q Mr. President, I want to thank you for going to Latin America a couple weeks ago. And this is a great story where Ex-Im Bank and Gamesa worked together to supply over 50 turbines to Honduras, for example. THE PRESIDENT:

2、Right. Q If you could elaborate more on your National Export Initiative, I think that that would be an amazing thing to talk about. THE PRESIDENT: Well, thats a good point. You guys are selling some of your turbines overseas, partly because whats called the Export-Import Bank - which is a government

3、 agency that helps businesses market to overseas markets - hooked up with Gamesa and saw - discovered this way where they could get into that market. Now, one of the ways that we got in trouble before the recession was we were borrowing a lot of money to buy a lot of stuff from somebody else. Right?

4、 I mean, basically, what happened was we ran up our credit cards, we took out home equity 2 loans, and we bought a lot of flat-screen TVs, and we bought a lot of whatever you all buy. (Laughter.) I didnt want to get personal in terms of all the things that you might have purchased. But a lot of it w

5、as made somewhere else. And that was great for China. That was great for some of these other countries that are exporting to the United States, but it wasnt very good for U.S. industry. The way countries succeed over the long term is by making stuff and selling it to somebody else. (Applause.) So wh

6、at - my - I set a goal. I said I want to double our exports. I want to double our exports over the next five years and we can do it. Weve already increased our exports by 18 percent. Now thats a good start, but that means we got another 80 percent to go. And thats where using something like the Expo

7、rt-Import Bank can be really important, because a lot of these other countries give a big advantage to their exporters. They help give them financing. They help them find markets. They negotiate deals for them. And my attitude is, well, if theyre doing it for their companies I want to make sure were

8、 doing it for our companies. And I want to make sure that goods that were producing here in the United States get sold other places. Weve got the best technology. Weve got the best workers in the world. But we are such a big market that a lot of times weve been focused more internally than thinking

9、about how can we sell to other countries. And we cant be afraid of competition. Weve got to go after it. All right? Young lady right there. Yes, you. Q Hi, my name is Singaza Bell (ph). Yes, my question is in light of what you just said. What of corporate 3 tax incentives 4 and R&D tax incentives th

10、at will make companies like Gamesa do their manufacturing here? Because its one thing to have the knowledge base in the United States, but we really need manufacturing back here. THE PRESIDENT: Youre right, and the reason that companies locate in different places is complicated. A lot of it has to d

11、o with the fact that labor 1 costs may be lower in some of these other countries, but a lot of it has to do with our tax code, which is kind of screwy（扭曲的，古怪的） . On paper, weve got the highest tax - one of the highest tax codes for corporations in the world - on paper. But heres the catch, we have s

12、o many loopholes that it turns out youve got a whole bunch of companies who are paying no axes or barely paying taxes, or they keep their money in offshore 5 accounts and it doesnt get reinvested back here in the United States of America. So this is one of the reasons why Ive said that I think it wo

13、uld make sense for us to reform our tax code, simplify it, lower the rate for corporations, but eliminate a bunch of the loopholes（漏洞，枪眼） so that everybody is paying the same and its fair. Because what you pay in taxes should not depend on how good your lawyer is, or how good your accountant is. If

14、you make a certain amount of money, thats what you should pay. And I think that same principle, by the way, we can apply to individuals as well. So one of the things Im interested in is looking at tax reform. Ninety percent of you shouldnt even have to probably file a return. The way electronics wor

15、ks these days, you should be able to - with your W-2, it gets plugged in. Its on a computer somewhere. Heres your refund 6 . You sign something electronically. It gets done. Most people dont itemize（逐条列记） . If you dont itemize, sending in some complicated return is just a waste of paperwork. And eve

16、n if you do itemize, most of you probably its your mortgage on your house - interest payments on your mortgage and a couple other things. It shouldnt be some two-week ordeal 7 （折磨） . And by the way, because sometimes folks will say, well, you dont have to do your taxes. Look, its true, I dont do my

17、taxes anymore. Ive got other stuff that Ive got to do. But it wasnt that long ago when I did do my taxes. I remember. It was terrible. (Laughter.) Just like I remember pumping gas. I dont pump gas anymore, but I remember what it was like when you filled it up and it turned out you didnt have as much

18、 money as you thought. So I think we can actually simplify it. But on manufacturing, tax reform on the corporate side could make a difference. The other thing, though, is in terms of encouraging manufacturing, weve got to understand what our advantage is. See, well never compete in terms of low wage

19、s; theres always going to be someplace that has lower wages than we do. Were a wealthy country. So if a company just wants to make plastic toys, were just not going to be able to keep up with that. But when it comes to high-end, high-skilled jobs, those are the kind of manufacturing jobs we have to

20、go after. And thats where research, innovation is so important. Thats where on something like clean energy, making sure that theres a market for that clean energy is so important. Thats whats going to produce manufacturing jobs - making sure weve got a good smart grid 8 . Those are the kinds of thin

21、gs that are going to make sure that we have the high-end manufacturing here in our country. And I just want to introduce - theres a guy right here, this guy, Im going to embarrass him. His name is Ron Bloom. Ron is actually the guy who helped us save the auto 9 industry. He helped to design our prog

22、ram to make sure that G.M. and Chrysler did not get liquidated 10 and did not go under. And by the way, I dont know if you guys heard, a couple weeks back G.M. said it was now going to hire back every single worker that had been laid off. Every single worker that had been laid off. (Applause.) So Ro

23、n is now working to develop manufacturing strategies for every industry around the country, and hes doing great work. And Im sure hes going to be talking to the folks here at Gamesa and others in terms of finding ways that we can increase manufacturing here in the United States all across the countr

24、y. All right, gentleman right here. Q David Campbell (ph). My question is in regards to the ITC and the PTC - the investment tax credit and the production tax credit, renewable energy. Its somewhat known that the large energy developers act somewhat volatile 11 （挥发性的，不稳定的） depending on the looming 1

25、2 deadlines in some of the provisions in those tax credits. And they have been known, and theyve been spoken on in the industry as being helpful. Can you just speak on how your administration plans to support that or plans to continue to support it because you already are? THE PRESIDENT: We want to

26、make them permanent so that people arent looking every few years to try to figure out is this investment going to be there for us. (Applause.) I want to kick-start this industry. I want to make sure weve got good customers, and I want to make sure that theres the financing there so that we can meet

27、that demand. And theres no reason why we cant do both, but it does require us getting past some of these political arguments. I dont understand why some folks think that if you promote clean energy that somehow youre some pointy-headed, environmentalist type, but if youre all about just drilling and

28、 getting more oil, then youre a tough guy. If oil is what youve got and it works for you, then theres nothing wrong with oil. But when you only have 2, 3 percent of the worlds oil reserves, why wouldnt you want to develop alternative sources of energy that are cleaner and more efficient and that pro

29、duce manufacturing jobs like are being produced right here. Sometimes people say, well, what about coal? Look, coal - we are the Saudi Arabia of coal. Weve got a whole lot of coal, but the fact of the matter is, coal - if we dont have clean coal technologies to catch the particles that are sent up i

30、n the air, it causes serious pollution that increases the rates of asthma 13 and is contributing to weather patterns changing. So we should work on technologies to make coal cleaner. But that doesnt mean that its an either/or; its a both/and. We can use oil, use coal. Were going to need those for a

31、while. But lets also develop these new energies, these cleaner energies, that can really make a difference. Were going to need bipartisan（两党连立的） support for that. Thats what Im hoping were going to be able to get. 文章重点单词注释： 1 laborn.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦参考例句： We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。2 equityn.公正，公平，（无固定利息的）股票参考例句： They shared the work of the house with equ