With the overwhelming majority of the oil we produce and import devoted to powering our cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains and planes, the impact on getting around would be most dramatic.

我们生产和进口的原油中绝大部分是用在汽车、摩托车、货车、火车及飞机上，来去的路上会变得很有挑战性。

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Paulo Roberto Costa, its downstream director, envisages trains taking soyabeans, corn and iron ore from the interior to the ports and returning with oil.

保罗·罗伯托·科斯塔(Paulo Roberto Costa)设想列车把大豆，玉米和铁矿石从内陆运到港口并从港口带回来石油。

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Before long, the trains started burning oil instead of coal.

不久，火车就不再烧煤而改烧汽油了。

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Trains are fuel efficient, they relieve traffic and airport congestion and they also reduce our dependence on foreign oil, making passenger trains the safer,cleaner, greener transportation option."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Oil powers our cars, trucks, planes and trains.

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To the extent that electrified transport offers an alternative to oil, such as subways, trolleys, and trains actually do today, and electric cars might hypothetically do tomorrow, taxing their motive power can only make the situation worse.

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Personal electric cars are still a far better option than personal hydrogen cars for all kinds of reasons, but if governments are serious about introducing electric transportation in place of oil, the creation of electrified mass passenger transport, e.g. trains and trams would be the better way to go.

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