The idea is that Americans could switch en masse to natural gas vehicles, and the country could stop importing so much oil.

该想法就是，美国可使公众换用天然气汽车，以及国家不用再进口如此多的石油。

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Though it has the world's second-largest oil reserves, the country is so short of refining capacity that it spends a lot of cash on importing fuel.

尽管这个国家的石油储量居世界第二，但由于提炼能力的匮乏而不得不耗巨资进口燃料。

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Since 1993, China had become the importing Country of energy again. Dependency on importing oil and gas is increasingly.

1993年我国再次成为石油净进口国以来，对外依存度不断增加。

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The idea is that Americans could switch en masse to natural gas vehicles, and the country could stop importing so much oil.

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But many cities are still without running water, and the country with the second-largest oil reserves in the world is importing gasoline.

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The US Energy Information Administration reckons that, if China's demand for oil grows by a modest 3.3% a year, the country will be importing nearly 11m barrels per day by 2025.

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