1. As bad as it is, BP's Gulf oil spill dwindles compared with gushers of the past. David Biello reports. 答案是糟糕透顶了,可是英国石油公司在墨西哥湾的原油泄漏事故跟以前的漏油事故相比只算是小巫见大巫。
2. Spare megawatts from the 55 major DAMS along the Columbia River and its tributaries in the Pacific Northwest could be fed into electrolyzers, turning them into the equivalent of oil gushers. 哥伦比亚河及其在太平洋沿岸地区美国西北部的支流上的55座水坝所产生的剩余的大量电力能够被输入到电解装置之中,使之变得相当于喷油井。