Thank you very much. Everybody, please have a seat. Sorry we’re running just a little bit behind, but I figured it’s a great day to enjoy the Rose Garden. 非常感谢。各位，请坐。抱歉我们稍微迟了一点，但我觉得今天是享受玫瑰园的好日子。
Today, members of Congress have a simple choice to make: They can stand with the big oil companies, or they can stand with the American people. 今天，国会议员面临一个简单的选择：他们可以站在大型石油公司一边，也可以站在美国人民一边。
Right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits –- profits that go up every time folks pull up into a gas station. But on top of these record profits, oil companies are also getting billions a year -- billions a year in taxpayer subsidies -- a subsidy that they’ve enjoyed year after year for the last century. 目前，最大的石油公司正在赚取创纪录的利润——每次人们去加油站加油时，这些利润都在增加。但除了这些创纪录的利润外，石油公司每年还获得数十亿美元——每年数十亿美元的纳税人补贴——这是他们在过去一个世纪里年复一年享受的补贴。
Think about that. It’s like hitting the American people twice. You’re already paying a premium at the pump right now. And on top of that, Congress, up until this point, has thought it was a good idea to send billions of dollars more in tax dollars to the oil industry. 想想这意味着什么。这等于让美国人民遭受双重打击。你们现在加油时已经在支付高价。而在此之上，国会至今还认为向石油行业再投入数十亿美元纳税人的钱是个好主意。
It’s not as if these companies can’t stand on their own. Last year, the three biggest U.S. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profits. Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour. And when the price of oil goes up, prices at the pump go up, and so do these companies’ profits. In fact, one analysis shows that every time gas goes up by a penny, these companies usually pocket another $200 million in quarterly profits. 这些公司并非无法自力更生。去年，美国最大的三家石油公司获得了超过800亿美元的利润。埃克森美孚每小时净赚近470万美元。当油价上涨时，加油站的价格上涨，这些公司的利润也随之增长。事实上，一项分析显示，每当汽油价格上涨一美分，这些公司通常就能多获得2亿美元的季度利润。
Meanwhile, these companies pay a lower tax rate than most other companies on their investments, partly because we’re giving them billions in tax giveaways every year. 与此同时，这些公司为其投资缴纳的税率低于大多数其他公司，部分原因是我们每年给予它们数十亿美元的税收优惠。
Now, I want to make clear, we all know that drilling for oil has to be a key part of our overall energy strategy. We want U.S. oil companies to be doing well. We want them to succeed. That’s why under my administration, we’ve opened up millions of acres of federal lands and waters to oil and gas production. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high. We’ve added enough oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some. And just yesterday, we announced the next step for potential new oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic. 现在，我要说明的是，我们都知道石油钻探必须是整体能源战略的关键部分。我们希望美国石油公司经营得好，也希望它们成功。因此，在我的政府任内，我们已开放数百万英亩联邦土地和水域用于油气生产；运营中的石油钻井平台数量已增至原来的四倍，创下历史新高；我们新增的油气管道足以环绕地球一周还绰绰有余。就在昨天，我们宣布了大西洋潜在新油气勘探的下一步计划。
So the fact is, we’re producing more oil right now than we have in eight years, and we’re importing less of it as well. For two years in a row, America has bought less oil from other countries than we produce here at home -- for the first time in over a decade. 事实是，我们现在的石油产量比过去八年都多，进口量也在减少。连续两年，美国从其他国家购买的石油少于我们在国内生产的石油——这是十多年来的首次。
So American oil is booming. The oil industry is doing just fine. With record profits and rising production, I’m not worried about the big oil companies. With high oil prices around the world, they’ve got more than enough incentive to produce even more oil. That’s why I think it’s time they got by without more help from taxpayers who are already having a tough enough time paying the bills and filling up their gas tank. 所以美国石油产业正在蓬勃发展。石油行业状况良好。面对创纪录的利润和不断增长的产量，我不担心大型石油公司。在全球油价高企的情况下，它们有足够的动力生产更多石油。这就是为什么我认为是时候让它们不再依赖纳税人的帮助了，毕竟纳税人已经在为支付账单和加油而苦苦挣扎。
And I think it’s curious that some folks in Congress, who are the first to belittle investments in new sources of energy, are the ones that are fighting the hardest to maintain these giveaways for the oil companies. 我觉得颇为奇怪的是，国会中一些人最先贬低新能源投资，却最卖力地维护给石油公司的这些优惠。
Instead of taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s never been more profitable, we should be using that money to double-down on investments in clean energy technologies that have never been more promising -- investments in wind power and solar power and biofuels; investments in fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and energy-efficient homes and buildings. That’s the future. That’s the only way we're going to break this cycle of high gas prices that happen year after year after year. As the economy is growing, the only time you start seeing lower gas prices is when the economy is doing badly. 与其将纳税人的钱给一个从未如此赚钱的行业，我们更应该用这些资金加倍投资前景从未如此广阔的清洁能源技术——投资风能、太阳能和生物燃料；投资节能汽车和卡车，以及节能住宅和建筑。那才是未来。那也是我们打破年复一年高油价循环的唯一途径。随着经济增长，你能看到油价下降的唯一时候就是经济表现糟糕的时候。
That’s not the kind of pattern that we want to be in. We want the economy doing well, and people to be able to afford their energy costs. 这不是我们希望的模式。我们希望经济良好运行，人民能够负担得起能源开支。
And keep in mind, we can’t just drill our way out of this problem. As I said, oil production here in the United States is doing very well, and it's been doing well even as gas prices are going up. Well, the reason is because we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but we only have 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. And that means we could drill every drop of American oil tomorrow but we’d still have to buy oil from other countries to make up the difference. We’d still have to depend on other countries to meet our energy needs. 还要记住，我们不能仅靠钻探来摆脱这个问题。正如我所说，美国的石油产量现在很好，即使油价上涨也一直表现良好。原因是我们使用了世界石油的20%以上，但我们只拥有世界已知石油储量的2%。这意味着即使我们明天开采出美国每一滴石油，我们仍然需要从其他国家购买石油来弥补差额。我们仍然需要依赖其他国家来满足我们的能源需求。
And because it’s a world market, the fact that we’re doing more here in the United States doesn’t necessarily help us because even U.S. oil companies they’re selling that oil on a worldwide market. They’re not keeping it just for us. And that means that if there’s rising demand around the world then the prices are going to up. 而且因为这是一个全球市场，我们在美国生产更多石油这一事实并不一定能帮到我们，因为即使是美国石油公司也在全球市场上出售石油。它们不是只为我们保留。这意味着如果全球需求上升，价格也会随之上涨。
That’s not the future that I want for America. I don’t want folks like these back here and the folks in front of me to have to pay more at the pump every time that there’s some unrest in the Middle East and oil speculators get nervous about whether there’s going to be enough supply. I don’t want our kids to be held hostage to events on the other side of the world. 这不是我想要的美国的未来。我不希望在我身后和面前的这些人，每次中东出现动荡、石油投机者对供应是否充足感到紧张时，就不得不在加油站支付更多费用。我不希望我们的孩子被世界另一端的事件所裹挟。
I want us to control our own destiny. I want us to forge our own future. And that’s why, as long as I’m President, America is going to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy, which means we will continue developing our oil and gas resources in a robust and responsible way. But it also means that we’re going to keep developing more advanced homegrown biofuels, the kinds that are already powering truck fleets across America. 我希望我们掌控自己的命运。我希望我们开创自己的未来。这就是为什么只要我担任总统，美国将推行全方位能源战略，这意味着我们将以积极且负责任的方式继续开发石油和天然气资源。但这同时意味着我们将继续开发更先进的国产生物燃料，这些燃料已经为美国各地的卡车车队提供动力。
We’re going to keep investing in clean energy like the wind power and solar power that’s already lighting thousands of homes and creating thousands of jobs. We’re going to keep manufacturing more cars and trucks to get more miles to the gallon so that you can fill up once every two weeks instead of every week. We’re going to keep building more homes and businesses that waste less energy so that you’re in charge of your own energy bills. 我们将继续投资清洁能源，比如已经为数千个家庭供电并创造了数千个就业岗位的风能和太阳能。我们将继续制造更多节能汽车和卡车，让你们可以每两周加一次油而不是每周都加。我们将继续建造更多节约能源的住宅和商业建筑，让你们自己掌控能源账单。
We’re going to do all of this by harnessing our most inexhaustible resource: American ingenuity and American imagination. That’s what we need to keep going. That’s what’s at stake right now. That’s the choice that we face. And that’s the choice that’s facing Congress today. They can either vote to spend billions of dollars more in oil subsidies that keep us trapped in the past, or they can vote to end these taxpayer subsidies that aren’t needed to boost oil production so that we can invest in the future. It’s that simple. 我们将通过利用我们最取之不尽的资源来实现这一切：美国的创造力和美国的想象力。这是我们继续前进所需要的。这就是此刻利害攸关的。这就是我们面临的选择。这也是今天国会面临的选择。他们可以投票花费数十亿美元的石油补贴让我们困在过去，也可以投票结束这些本不需要的纳税人补贴，以便我们投资未来。就这么简单。
And as long as I’m President, I’m betting on the future. And as the people I’ve talked to around the country, including the people who are behind me here today, they put their faith in the future as well. That’s what we do as Americans. That’s who we are. We innovate. We discover. We seek new solutions to some of our biggest challenges. And, ultimately, because we stick with it, we succeed. And I believe that we’re going to do that again. Today, the American people are going to be watching Congress to see if they have that same faith. 只要我担任总统，我就押注未来。我在全国各地交谈过的人，包括今天在我身后的人，他们也把信念寄托在未来。这就是我们美国人所做的。这就是我们的本质。我们创新。我们探索。我们为一些最大的挑战寻找新的解决方案。最终，因为我们坚持不懈，我们成功了。我相信我们将再次做到这一点。今天，美国人民将关注国会，看看他们是否也有同样的信念。
Thank you very much, everybody. 非常感谢各位。
