Squeezing natural-resources firms is hardly unprecedented—even in Australia itself, which imposed a surcharge on oil exploration decades ago during a prior boom.

压榨自然资源公司并不是史无前例的，即使在澳大利亚，他们也在经济繁荣前的数十年之前就对石油勘探征收了额外的费用。

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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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So oil firms, naturally, have been concentrating on squeezing as much oil as they can out of those.

因而，自然地，石油企业尽可能的开采更多的石油。

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But Trichet still pointed out that the ECB raised interest rates in the summer of 2008, when oil prices were squeezing consumption levels compared to GDP.

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Once the Smart Sponge has soaked up some oil no amount of squeezing will get it back out.

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Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies get extra petroleum out of depleted fields by squeezing CO2 into them.

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