Obama's Weekly Address WEEKLY ADDRESS: Taking Control of Americas Energy Future
奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁迈向能源自主
Hi, everybody.
大家好！
On Thursday, I visited a steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio to talk about what we're doing to rebuild our economy on a new foundation for stronger, more durable economic growth.
本周四，我参观了俄亥俄州克里夫兰市一家钢铁厂，在那里我谈到了我们当前正在做的事情，为重建经济体系打下更坚实的新的基础，保证经济可持续发展。
One area where we've made great progress is American energy.
取得进步的领域之一就是能源。
After years of talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, we are actually poised to control our own energy future.
在大喊降低海外石油依赖性的多年之后，现在我们确实可以掌控自己的能源未来了。
Shortly after I took office, we invested in new American technologies to reverse our dependence on foreign oil and double our wind and solar power.
在我主政不久，我们加大了对新技术的投资，以扭转对海外石油依赖的局面，实现风能和太阳能产量翻一番的目标。
And today, we generate more renewable energy than ever-with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it.
今天，我们生产的可再生能源比以往任何时候都要多，带来的还有成千上万待遇优厚的工作岗位。
We produce more natural gas than anyone-and nearly everyone's energy bill is lower because of it.
我们的天然气产量全球第一，每个人的能源支出都因此得以降低。
And just this week, we learned that for the first time in nearly two decades, the United States of America now produces more of our own oil here at home than we buy from other countries.
就在本周，统计数据表明，近20年来，美利坚合众国第一次实现国内石油产量超过我们从海外购买的石油量。
That's a big deal. That's a tremendous step towards American energy independence.
这是一个重大的成就。是我们走向美国能源自主的巨大一步。
But this is important, too: we reached this milestone in part not only because we're producing more energy, but because we're wasting less energy.
但还有一点很重要，我们之所以能实现这一里程碑式的进步，不仅仅因为我们生产的能源