【正文】 more solar power and wind power and other sources of clean, renewable , you wouldn’t know it by listening to some of the folks running for office today, but producing more oil at home has been, and will continue to be, a key part of my energy my Administration, we’re producing more oil than at any other time in the last eight ’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record we’ve added enough oil and gas pipeline to circle the entire Earth and then are the as I’ve been saying all week, even though America uses around 20 percent of the world’s oil, we only have around 2 percent of the world’s known oil even if we drilled everywhere, we’d still be relying on other countries for ’s why we’re pursuing an alloftheabove ’re producing more fuelefficient solar wind week, I was in Boulder City, Nevada, where they’ve got the largest solar plant of its kind anywhere in the ’s the was at Ohio State University, where they’ve developed the fastest electric car in the ’s the don’t want to cede these clean energy industries to China or Germany or any other want to see solar panels and wind turbines and fuelefficient cars manufactured right here in America, by American , getting these clean energy industries to locate here requires us to maintain a national mitment to new research and it also requires us to build worldclass transportation and munications networks, so that any pany can move goods and sell products all around the world as quickly and efficiently as much of America needs to be rebuilt right ’ve got crumbling roads and power grid that wastes too much inplete highspeed broadband we’ve got thousands of unemployed construction workers who’ve been looking for a job ever since the housing market once again, we’re waiting on see, in a matter of days, funding will stop for all sorts of transportation sites will go will have to go our economy will take a Congress cannot let that at a time when we should be doing everything in our power – Democrats and Republicans – to keep this recovery moving Senate did their passed a bipartisan transportation had the support of 52 Democrats and 22 it’s up to the House to follow suit。to put aside partisan posturing, end the gridlock, and do what’s right for the American is mon now, all across this country, we’ve got contractors and construction workers who have never been more eager to get back on the long term transportation bill would put them to those are good just released a report that shows nearly 90 percent of the construction, manufacturing and trade jobs created through investments in transportation projects are middle class are exactly the jobs we need right now, and they’ll make the economy stronger for ’ve done this the Great Depression, America built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate World War II, we connected our states with a system of and Republican administrations invested in great projects that benefited everybody, from the workers who built them to the businesses that still use them tell Congress that if we invest in new technology and new energy。to get to work and to help get our teachers back in the can’t afford to wait any and have a great weekend.第二篇：奧巴馬電臺演講20112012 on Congress to Prevent Student Interest Rates from Doubling Saturday, April 21, 2012 week, I got the chance to sit down with some impressive students at Lorain County Community College in of them was a woman named Andrea years ago, Andrea lost her job as an HR , she’s getting certified in the fastgrowing field of electronic medical enrolling at Lorain, Andrea told me she was looking everywhere trying to find a new without a degree, she said that nobody would hire ’s story isn’t ’ve met so many Americans who are out there pounding the pavement looking for work only to discover that they need new I’ve met a lot of employers who are looking for workers, but can’t find ones with the skills they’re looking we should be doing everything we can to put higher education within reach for every American – because at a time when the unemployment rate for Americans with at least a college degree is about half the national average, it’s never been more here’s the thing: it’s also never been more who take out loans to pay for college graduate owing an average of $25, the first time, Americans owe more debt on their student loans than they do on their credit for many working families, the idea of owing that much money means that higher education is simply out of reach for their America, higher education cannot be a ’s an economic imperative that every family must be able to ’s why next week I’ll be visiting colleges across the country, talking to students about how we can make higher education more affordable – and what’s at stake right now if Congress doesn’t do something about see, if Congress doesn’t act, on July 1st interest rates on some student loans will seven and half million students will end up owing more on their loan would be a tremendous it’s pletely issue didn’t e out of some time now, I’ve been calling on Congress to take steps to make higher education more affordable – to prevent these interest rates from doubling, to extend the tuition tax credit that has saved middleclass families millions of dollars, and to double the number of workstudy jobs over the next five , over the past few years, Republicans in Congress have voted against new ways to make college more affordable for middleclass families, and voted for huge new tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires – tax cuts that would have to be paid for by cutting things like education and jobtraining programs that give students new opportunities to work and cannot just cut our way to it harder for our young people to afford higher education and earn their degrees is nothing more than cutting our own future off at the needs to keep interest rates on student loans from doubling, and they need to do it is a question of cannot let America bee