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In addition, fuel-efficiency standards should be raised as an immediate step towards reducing dependency on oil.

此外，作为一种减少依赖石油的直接步骤，能源效率标准也应该被提高。

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The next major step is to reduce the cost of squeezing a gallon of oil from algae from $100 to $2.

下一步是将水藻中提取一加仑油的成本从100美元减少到2美元。

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The first step in pressing the oil from seeds is to crush the seeds between two stones.

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Congressman Berman and at least 330 lawmakers supporting the bill, which expands the scope of sanctions to oil pipelines and tankers, say that despite some signs of progress in negotiations with Iran, Congress must step up pressure on Tehran.

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"We're going to go in and put a cap on it and we'll be able to produce the fluids [the oil and the next step is to make sure that we minimize the oil and pollution going into the Gulf."

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Changing the oil is another step up in difficulty.

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Congress recently held a hearing about it, and the energy bill before lawmakers would step up oil shale development on federal land.

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But not only did the Obama Administration not do anything to enable the technological breakthroughs that produced these results, it has actually fought increased oil and gas production every step of the way, and has continually threatened the fracking technology that has made the sharply increasing American production possible.

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