The Japanese automakers broke into the American market in the 1970s by exporting small, high-quality, fuel-efficient vehicles during an energy crisis.

20世纪70年代，日本汽车制造商通过在能源危机时期出口高品质、节能的小型车打入美国市场。

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This week, he told Time Magazine's Joe Klein that, after the current financial crisis, "a new energy economy …That's going to be my No. 1 priority when I get into office."

本周他告诉时代杂志的乔·克莱恩，在现在的金融危机结束之后，“一个新的能源经济…将成为我就职后首先要考虑的事情。”

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The energy crisis turned into a fund-raising opportunity for Ovshinsky.

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As the state sunk into an ever deeper fiscal crisis, he continued to expend his energy on the grandiose and beyond the point: establishing a Californian policy for combating climate change, boosting an unaffordable High-Speed Rail system, and even eliminating plastic bags.

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During the energy crisis of the late 1970s the government financed research into catalysts for coal gasification, only to drop the projects after oil prices fell and natural gas was deregulated.

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