因为能源是整个经济的重要因素，如果油价长期高企不下，通货膨胀率就可能继续上涨，而经济增长率却在下降。可能出现的极端情况就是：尽管经济不景气，物价却持续上涨。

Because energy is such a crucial part of the economy, if prices stay high for a prolonged period, they will both raise the inflation rate and lower the rate of economic growth.

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在四月，消费者价格指数核心指数(不含食品和能源)增长了0.3%，打破了过去8个月来不高于0.2%的增长率的界限。

In April, the CPI's core index, which excludes food and energy, increased 0.3%, breaking a string of increases at 0.2% or less for eight months in a row.

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即使能源的需求在以1%的年增长率增加中但尽管2006年消耗了100兆btu2050年却可以下降到93兆btu。

Even with 1 percent annual growth in demand, the 100 quadrillion Btu consumed in 2006 would fall to 93 quadrillion Btu by 2050.

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