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The Perfect Electric Storm
完美电力风暴
ANCHOR
Remember the energy crisis? Outrageous electricity bills, rolling blackouts, and a big utility in bankruptcy court. Local problems in the State of California that made national headlines. And turned energy deregulation to a dirty word. Nearly as quickly as the crisis emerged, it seemed to disappear, or did it?
主播
还记得能源危机吗？昂贵的电费账单、轮流停电、濒临破产的大能源公司。加州的难题成了全国报纸的头条新闻，放松能源管制成为一个遭人厌恶的字眼。危机出现的时候，能源管制部门就消失了，是吗？
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN
It was real big.
男被访者
危机很严重。
AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN
The price of power has risen astronomically.
女被访者
电价高得惊人。
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN
More rolling blackouts are possible tonight.
男被访者
今晚更多的地方得轮流停电了。
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN
I mean it was the perfect electric storm.
男被访者
我是说这简直是一场完美电流风暴。
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN
If you can, please, use as low energy as absolutely necessary.
男被访者
请尽可能地节约用电。
DAVID FREEMAN, CHAIRMAN, CALIFORNIA POWER AUTHORITY
There hasn't been anything comparable to what we went through, I think in the history of the electric power industry. I mean here is a state with the fifth largest economy on Earth that was actually suffering blackouts.
大卫·弗里曼，加州电业局局长
在电力工业史上，我认为没有比我们所遭遇的更惨的了。我的意思是，加州是全球第五大经济发展地区，却面临着不断停电的困扰。
REPORTER
The perfect electric storm that crippled the state and captivated a nation, California and its energy woes became a national news story, and the butt of late-night jokes.
记者
这场完美电力风暴使加州瘫痪，也让整个国家遭殃。加州和它的能源悲剧成为全国的新闻，也成为人们午夜电视聊天节目的笑料。
GUEST, NBC'S "THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO"
And I want to share a couple of things I'm doing to save electricity.
全国广播公司的《杰·雷诺晚间秀》嘉宾
我想告诉你一些省电方法。
LENO
These are tips you're gonna give us now to save?
雷诺
这些就是你要告诉我们的窍门吗？
GUEST
This is stuff I do myself.
嘉宾
这是我自己做的。
LENO
Wow, ok, go ahead.
雷诺
哦，好，请接着说。
GUEST
First, I get a really long extension cord, and I plugged it into a socket in Texas.
嘉宾
首先，我做了一根长长的延长电线，然后插在得州的插座上。
REPOTER
But for Californians, there was not a whole lot to laugh about.
记者
但是对加州居民来说，整个事情并不好笑。
DAVID FREEMAN
It was a leap of faith into free-market economics. It just doesn't work with electricity.
大卫·弗里曼
这是向自由市场经济信念的跨越。但这种信念不适用于电力行业。
REPORTER
A flawed deregulation plan, an absence of new power plants, tight supply, high demand, soaring wholesale prices, retail price caps, even the weather, a combustible mix that created chaos in the energy markets.
记者
有纰漏的管制政策、缺乏新的电力工厂、供应紧张、需求居高不下、批发价格高得惊人，零售价格受到限制，甚至天气也跟着捣乱，这些混合而成的易燃物引爆了电力市场的混乱。
LORETTA LYNCH, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISIION
So the speculators moved in, and it felt like the Wild Wild West. In some parts of the state, utility companies shouldered the burden to the tune of 12 billion dollars, which left one of them, PG E in bankruptcy court. In others, costs were passed along to consumers. In San Diego, retail customers saw their rates triple within a year. The state could no longer guarantee its citizens electricity, in the summer of 2000. Californians learned a new phrase, rolling blackouts, by May of last year, after the state suffered two consecutive days of them.
洛蕾塔·林奇，加州公共设施委员会
因此，投机商涌入，感觉就像到了狂野西部。在加州的一些地区，公共设施公司肩负了高达120亿美元的债务，导致其中一家PG E公司因破产走上法庭。在其他地区，费用转嫁到消费者头上。在圣地亚哥，零售价格在一年中涨了3倍。在2000年夏天，加州无法保证市民的用电。在2001年5 月，经过两天的连续停电，加州人学会了一个新名词：轮流停电。
DAVID FREEMAN
We were in trouble every day.
大卫·弗里曼
我们每天麻烦不断。
REPORTER
For the summer of 2001, the predictions were dire. 34 days of power interruptions and hundreds of thousands of job losses. Nothing short of economic disaster. But the state has not had a rolling blackout since. Just as suddenly as that perfect electric storm battered the state a few years earlier, a new storm blew through last summer. No less powerful, but much more kind. A string of events that would put the whole crisis on hold.
记者
2001年夏天，对于停电的预测是相当可怕的。停电34天，上万个工作机会丧失，这如同经历了一场经济灾难。但自此之后加州再也没有发生如同数年前突然遭受的完美电力风暴--连续停电。去年夏天，（加州）又遭到电力风暴的袭击。和以往的强度虽然不像上下，但已经温柔多了。一系列经济事件使得整体陷入停电危机的事件不再发生。
CHRISTINE USPENSKI,SCHWAB WASHINGTON RESEARCH GROUP
Nothing cures an energy crisis like a recession.
克里斯蒂·乌斯本斯基，SCHWAB华盛顿研究集团
没有什么比经济衰退更能医治能源危机。
REPORTERA
slowing economy may have helped reduce demand and so did mild temperatures, but California consumers get high marks for their conservation efforts. Across the state, they cut energy use dramatically.
记者
经济不景气也许能有助于减少需求，宜人的气候也能减少用电需求。加州消费者给人印象颇深的是他们的节电行为，全州用电量因此急剧下降。
