在能源价格高涨影响共和党在中期选举中的表现之际，白宫提出这一建议。
The idea comes as high energy prices drag GOP in midterm elections.
据四位知情人士透露，石油行业高管和白宫能源顾问正在提出各种方案，试图降低创纪录的柴油价格，以说服唐纳德·特朗普总统不要全面禁止柴油出口。
The oil industry executives and White House energy advisers are pitching ideas to bring down record high diesel prices in a bid to persuade President Donald Trump not to impose an outright export ban on the fuel, four people familiar with the issue said.
预计特朗普将在未来几天内决定政府可以采取哪些措施来降低这种因中东和欧洲冲突而飙升的燃料价格。
Trump is expected to decide in the coming days what steps the administration can take to lower the cost of a fuel that has skyrocketed amid wars in the Middle East and Europe.
特朗普曾多次表示支持出口禁令，但石油行业强烈反对这一提议，而欧洲和拉丁美洲的政府官员则担心这会使其失去这种对经济至关重要的燃料的主要来源。
Trump has multiple times voiced support for an export ban, an idea that the oil industry strongly opposes and that government officials in Europe and Latin America worry would leave them without a major source of the fuel that is crucial to their economies.
这一提议使农业部门与石油行业产生了对立，能源部长克里斯·赖特支持石油行业的观点。
The idea pits the agriculture sector against the oil industry, whose arguments have been backed by Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
石油和天然气行业的高管及分析师认为，禁令不仅无效，反而会进一步推高燃料价格。
Oil and gas executives and analysts have said a ban wouldn’t work and would eventually drive up fuel prices. ‘The motivation is to stop a ban,” said one oil industry executive familiar with the conversations.