ENERGY SUBSIDIES CUT AS OIL HITS $135
By Kathrin Hille in Taipei, John Burton in Singapore and Raphael Minder in Hong Kong
Friday, May 23, 2008
Asian governments yesterday moved to cut energy subsidies削减能源补贴 to protect their finances and those of state-owned energy companies in the face of soaring oil prices.
亚洲各国政府昨日开始削减能源补贴，以便在油价飞升的情况下保护政府财政和国有能源公司的财务状况。
As crude oil pushed through突破 $135 a barrel for the first time首次, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia announced plans for urgent action to free prices放开价格 or cut subsidy costs. China denied market rumours of an imminent increase in retail prices, but is widely believed to be preparing to relax price controls放松价格管制.
随着原油价格首次突破每桶135美元，台湾、马来西亚以及印度尼西亚纷纷宣布了放开价格或削减补贴的紧急行动计划。中国否认了近期将上调零售价格的市场传闻，但人们普遍认为，中国将准备放松价格管制。
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当原油价格历史性地第一次达到每桶135美元之高，台湾，马来西亚还有印度尼西亚都发布通告要立刻采取措施，要么让市场定价，要么削减能源补贴。中国否认了将会提高原油零售价的谣言，但很多人认为中国一开始准备放松价格控制了。
“It is probably more affordable for a country like China to subsidise than Indonesia,” said Peter Gastreich, oil and gas analyst at UBS in Hong Kong. “But if oil prices keep going up, it is simply not in any country's best interest to keep subsidising these prices indefinitely无止境地.”
瑞银(UBS)驻香港的油气分析师彼得•加斯特莱齐(Peter Gastreich)表示：“对中国这样的国家来说，补贴能力要强于印度尼西亚。但如果价格一直上涨，对任何国家来说，无止境地价格补贴都不是最好的。”
In Taiwan, the first act of the newly elected administration of President Ma Ying-jeou was to abolish price controls on petrol and diesel from June 1. The new government also said it would raise electricity prices in July.
在台湾，新任总统马英九的第一项行动就是将在6月1日废除汽油和柴油的价格管制。新政府还表示，将在7月份提高电价。
Malaysia said it would soon announce a new petroleum subsidy scheme to keep its fuel subsidy bill at around last year's level of M$40bn ($12.5bn) in spite of rising oil prices. With oil at $130 a barrel, the bill would reach M$48bn in the current fiscal year财政年度, exceeding the M$40bn that the government plans to spend on infrastructure基础设施 and other development projects.
马来西亚表示，将很快宣布一项新的石油补贴计划，以便在石油价格不断上涨的情况下，将燃料补贴账单保持在去年400亿林吉特（合125亿美元）的水平附近。随着油价突破130美元，此账单在当前的财政年度将会达到480亿林吉特，超过政府计划用于基础设施和其它开发建设项目的补贴金额（400亿林吉特）。
Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Malaysia's finance minister, also suggested the government would take the unpopular step of raising electricity tariffs. “If there is a rise in the price of [natural] gas, we will have to pass that along转嫁出去, since we are not going to see Tenaga [the state power monopoly] lose money,” he said.
马来西亚财政部长诺尔•穆罕默德•雅各布(Nor Mohamed Yakcop)还暗示，政府将采取一项不受欢迎的措施：提高电价。他表示：“如果天然气价格上升，我们将不得不转嫁出去，因为我们不想见到（国家电力垄断公司）Tenaga亏本。”
The Indonesian government said it would “soon” go ahead with a plan to raise fuel prices by an average of 28.7 per cent.
印度尼西亚政府表示，将“很快”实施一项计划，把燃料价格平均提高28.7%。
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