What is it we want independence from, exactly?

我们到底想要独立于什么？

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That's why we need independence of the central bank; we want to have a central banker that can say no to the government.

这就是为什么我们需要独立自主的,中央银行；,我们希望有一个可以对政府说不得,中央银行家。

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Which would of course cripple the global economy, because as much as we want to win our independence from oil, most of our oil were still coming from the Middle East.

这将导致世界经济瘫痪，虽然我们一直竭力发掘本国石油资源，我们绝大部分的石油,仍然来自中东。

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We want true energy independence, and we need a political consensus to arrive at it.

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