Yet if we take a very long-term view, it is not so clear that high oil prices are bad for the world as a whole. For example, if high oil prices were the result of taxes that were then redistributed to oil users, they would be unambiguously good.
但如果从长期来看，高油价对世界的负面影响并不十分明显。例如，如果高油价是税收带来的结果，而这些税收又重新分配给了所有石油用户，那么它所带来的好处是勿庸置疑的。