The Obama administration is now working to initiate a sensible long-term approach to energy, with new fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, investments in technology, energy-efficiency programs for dwellings, and environmentally sound exploration for additional resources. Doing this in the midst of an arduous post-crisis deleveraging process, a stubbornly slow recovery, the process of building a new, more sustainable growth pattern, is harder – politically and economically – than it might otherwise have been, had the US started earlier.ampnbsp;
奥巴马政府正在着手规划合理的长期能源政策，包括新的汽车节能标准、技术投资、住房节能计划，以及最重要可靠的新资源开发计划。美国正处于的艰难的后危机去杠杆过程中，经济复苏十分缓慢，要在此时实施能源新政，建设新的、可持续性更强的增长模式将比正常情况下（如果能早一点就事实的话）更加困难，不管在政治上还是经济上都是如此。