艾丽西亚·迪亚兹、安玛丽·霍德恩、乔纳森·费罗和丽莎·阿布拉莫维奇报道 柴油价格大幅上涨之际，唐纳德·特朗普总统的首席贸易顾问正敦促欧洲盟友释放部分柴油储备。他表示，已与法方对口官员讨论此事，并将在二十国集团会议上向其他国家提出。
By Alicia Diaz, Annmarie Hordern, Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser is pressing European allies to release some diesel reserves, amid a surge in the fuel’s price, saying he had discussed the matter with his French counterpart and would raise it with other nations at a Group of 20 meeting.
“我昨天与法方对口官员通了电话，谈得很好。”美国贸易代表贾米森·格里尔周四在密尔沃比接受彭博电视台采访时说。他正在当地接待来自二十国集团经济体的对口官员。“我告诉他，这是美国方面提出的一个设想。我们希望各方协作采取应对措施。”他补充说：“我今天会与欧盟官员及对口官员会面，并传达同样的信息。”
“I spoke with my French counterpart yesterday. Very good conversation,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg Television on Thursday in Milwaukee, where he’s hosting counterparts from G20 economies. “I let him know that this is an idea that that we’ve had in the US. We’d love to have a collaborative response to this.”“I’ll meet with my European Union officials and counterparts today, and I’ll carry the same message,” he added.
柴油价格创纪录般飙升，这对特朗普构成政治挑战。11月中期选举临近，他所在的政党对国会的控制权面临流失风险。选举结果可能取决于选民对生活成本高企的担忧，其中包括能源成本。美国政府一直在权衡多项旨在压低柴油价格的方案，包括可能实施的美国柴油出口禁令。
Diesel prices have seen a record surge, posing a political challenge for Trump ahead of November midterm elections in which his party’s control of Congress is at risk. The election is poised to hinge on voters’ concerns over high costs of living, including for energy. The administration has been weighing a number of options to help bring down diesel prices, including a potential US export ban of the fuel.
这一想法令石油行业高管深感不安，他们发起游说活动，警告任何出口禁令都可能带来意外后果，例如推高其他燃料的价格。不过，特朗普周三表示，鉴于出口禁令可能引发意外的价格飙升，他禁止美国柴油出口的意愿已经降温。
That idea has alarmed oil industry executives, who mounted a lobbying campaign warning that any export ban could have unintended consequences such as raising prices for other fuels. Trump signaled Wednesday, however, that his appetite to ban exports of US diesel has cooled given the risk of unintended price spikes.
知情人士在匿名谈论政府内部审议时表示，白宫官员正在研究其他一些与禁令相比力度小得多的方案，包括鼓励高度依赖美国柴油的部分欧洲国家领导人释放部分库存。
White House officials are mulling other options that would fall well short of a ban, including encouraging leaders of some European nations that rely heavily on US diesel to release some of their inventories, people familiar with the matter said, speaking anonymously to discuss internal deliberations.
美国能源部长克里斯·赖特周三还表示，欧洲方面可能提供纾困措施，并称：“我们的欧洲朋友将宣布有关新增柴油供应投放市场的消息。”应美国要求，欧盟还在与成员国协调，就紧急柴油储备形成共同立场。据彭博新闻看到的备忘录，欧盟石油协调组周三晚些时候要求成员国确认，在其中一个国家称美国曾就双边接触事宜与其接洽后，美国是否还联系了其他成员国。
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday also signaled possible relief from Europe, saying that “there would be “announcements from our friends in Europe about new diesel supplies that’ll come to the market.” The European Union is also coordinating a joint position with member states on emergency diesel stocks in response to the US request. The EU’s Oil Coordination Group asked member countries late Wednesday to confirm whether they have been contacted by the US after one nation said it had been approached bilaterally, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News.
路透社此前援引知情人士报道称，特朗普政府已要求德国和法国释放其紧急柴油库存，以帮助缓解全球燃料价格压力，否则可能面临美国实施的柴油出口禁令。
Reuters earlier reported that the Trump administration told Germany and France to unlock their emergency diesel inventories to help ease global fuel prices or possibly face a US diesel export ban, citing people close to the discussions.