WHEN BP branded itself as “Beyond Petroleum”, and the fashionable colour among oil companies was green, Exxon Mobil stood aloof from the rush to embrace alternative sources of energy.

当英国石油公司（BP）标榜自己为“BP——Beyond Petroleum 超越石油”，而且各家石油企业崇尚环保的浓浓绿意之时，埃克森美孚（Exxon Mobil）却远离拥抱替代能源的时尚潮流。

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Another consequence would be an accelerated move to alternative sources of energy, one that is already necessitated by environmental concerns and intensified by the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

另外的后果将是加速转向替代能源，已经是一个必要的环境议题及加强BP(英国石油公司)在墨西哥湾漏油。

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