[BBC新闻听写]5月23日 油价高涨的原因是...
Dictation BBC News with Mary Small. The head of the oil cartel OPEC has said producers can do nothing to bring down oil prices, which earlier surged to a new record high, at 135 dollars a barrel. The organization’s General Secretary Abdalla El-Badri claimed the spiraling cost of crewed crude on speculators and a weak American dollar. In the US, there have been calls for Washington to intervene, as Kevin Connolly reports. American consumesrare about a quarter of the world zone’s oil in the and rising price of gasoline has become something in the of a national obsession in recent months. Many Democrats think the Bush Administration could ease the crisis by releasing oil onto the open market from the emergency strategic stockpile, which is stored underground in Texas and Louisiana. The administration so far has refused. Representatives of the big fivle oil companies which collectively makesed limit 36 billion dollars in profits in the 1st quarter of this year, are insisting to politicians on Capitol Hill, but that the price rises assembly is simply the result of the low laws of supply and demand. |
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