Business Channel 2007-0603&05

Well, some people might want to read things on finance¹ for Memorial² Day weekend. But gas prices has bring you a trip a quarter, treble A actually calculate³ how much your trip cost you. If you want to find out, you can load onto fuelcostcalculator.com and enter your destinations. So if you driving across the country in GMC YUKON that’s gonna cost you more than 12,000 dollars in gas. You could cut cost for that same round trip in just 362 dollars if you driving a Toyota PRIUS or find a plane for that matter. NPC Stephanie Stanton is in Burbank California⁴, so Stephanie, how much would you talking, uh, for gas on west coast.
Well, the gas on the west coast, we are not the highest in the nation which are a kind of shocking⁵ for a series⁶ for we always used to be the most expensive. That are the *** by the food prices here is still high, in fact equal to triplicate the average price. State wide for a gallon⁷ unleaded is $3.4 a gallon. Here to talk more about holiday travel, gas prices. How all of these affecting votes. Here’s Jeff Spring. He is spokesperson with Treble A here. He is in Southern California. Jeff, we have about to come up to the busiest summer driving season in this weekend in fact, right?
That’s right. The Treble A nationally announced about 3.3 million people becoming rolled traveling about 50 miles more this weekend and that’s about 1.7% increase of last year.
And is that going, though, I mean, is I find it almost hard to claim we have a increase. Although it is small, but is this a increase? Is that a point which drivers start with a hundred gallons⁸ stay back?
Well, we say it’s a small increase. What we find is that people go to travel, and travel closer to home, so they’re, they’re making changes. So many go on the trips, but making changes, traveling closer to home and, and making a shorter trips.
OK, I’d like to guess it would be an individual thing.
Oh, yes, this is an individual choice as what you do and when you make changes compares to the gas prices. I said making changes when you get 50 gallon in California, I saw a car blow more, I said making changes of my energies, something like that. So this is an individual choice and we’ll see that price point come to different people, different time.
And what about California? I mean, you know, we’re always used to the highest price in the nation. I mean, a lot of rose really have no choice because the public transportation⁹ here I say no is not likely in places like New York. So what about California? I mean, how are people poking¹⁰ on this and, you know, we’ve got a break now because Chicago has now got the highest price, but do expect to back at the top soon.
Well, I don’t think people here in California concern much about bring it home. We’ve got highest gas prices for such a long time.
Yeah.
There are things individual motors¹¹ can do, so to reduce their, their driving cablets. And so what we want to do is to increase people to, like to take the way out of the car to reduce, reduce using the cars***when my real driving happens, don’t take off driving starts of stop lights, don’t make those hard stops communicating to stop lights. All of these kinds of things are wasting gasoline¹².
Absolutely.
Uh, don't, don’t do, uh, fast driving on freeway, just bring it back five miles a hour, that would help you reduce your gasoline.
Interesting. Jeff Spring, thank you so much. You did advise something that I didn’t know, so that’s a kind of interesting. Thank you very much. We appreciate you joining us. And with that Amy, we’re gonna send it back to you.
All right Stephanie. Thank you.

1 finance   

n.财务管理，财政，金融，财源，资金

参考例句：

• She is an expert in finance.她是一名财政专家。
• A finance house made a bid to buy up the entire company.一家信贷公司出价买下了整个公司。

2 memorial   

adj.记忆的；纪念的；n.纪念碑，纪念堂

参考例句：

• We visited the Lincoln Memorial.我们参观了林肯纪念堂。
• He wrote a memorial of the late author.他写了一篇纪念这位已故作家的文章。

3 calculate   

vt.计算，核算；估计，推测；计划，打算

参考例句：

• He must calculate the probability of failure.他必须计算一下失败的概率。
• I'll calculate what it will cost.我要估计一下那要花多少钱。

4 California   

n.加利福尼亚(美国)

参考例句：

• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
• We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。

5 shocking   

adj.令人气愤的；令人震惊的

参考例句：

• His attitude was shocking to her.他的态度令她感到震惊。
• Such behaviour is really shocking.这种行为真不像话。

6 series   

n.连续；系列

参考例句：

• The students have put forward a series of questions.学生们提出了一系列问题。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

7 gallon   

n.加仑(液量单位)

参考例句：

• The car used a gallon of petrol for the journey.汽车在路上消耗了一加仑汽油。
• This car runs 5 miles on a gallon of gasoline.这部汽车一加仑汽油可以行驶五英里。

8 gallons   

n.加仑( gallon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A cow will yield several gallons of milk each day. 一头母牛每天产几加仑的牛奶。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I'd like five gallons of gin. 我要五加仑杜松子酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 transportation   

n.运输，运输系统，运输工具

参考例句：

• The transportation of goods by air costs a lot.航空运输货物花费很高。
• He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.他终于解决了运输的困难。

10 poking   

n. 刺，戳，袋 vt. 拨开，刺，戳 vi. 戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• He was poking at the rubbish with his stick. 他正用手杖拨动垃圾。
• He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops. 他周末都泡在布满尘埃的旧书店里。

11 motors   

n.马达，发动机( motor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The United Auto Workers hit the bricks against General Motors. 联合汽车工人工会举行罢工，反对通用汽车公司。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The whine of the motors jangled her nerves. 马达的闹声使她的神经受不了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

12 gasoline   

n.(美)汽油

参考例句：

• This car runs 5 miles on a gallon of gasoline.这部汽车一加仑汽油可以行驶五英里。
• There is still some gasoline left in the tank.油箱里还剩下一些汽油。