单词fossil fuels
n.: “fossil fuel”的复数
网络: 化石燃料；矿物燃料；化石能源
化石燃料
(煤、石油、天燃气等)矿物燃料
Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.
由于化石燃料储存能源的方式，使其开采和出售都非常便宜。
The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "
目标不是要成为化石燃料的替代，而是“要成为一个可行的替代品。”
If it falls into the right category of subsidies for fossil fuels, we would have to look at our own programmes as well as others.
如果它恰好被划分到了燃料补贴的类别，我们将需要研究一下我们自己及其它国家的计划。
"In the end, if they use more renewables domestically, they can export more" fossil fuels, she said. "It"s sort of a no-brainer. "
最后，如果他们在国内使用更多的可再生资源，他们就可以出口更多的化石燃料，这是显而易见的事实。
And as you go across there you will see that we"ve got a few tens of years, and perhaps 100 years of fossil fuels left.
这么看过去，你就会发现我们只剩下几十年的，多说100年的化石燃料。
The only way of ensuring that does not happen is to price fossil fuels to cover the cost of the environmental damage they do.
唯一可以确保页岩开采不受灭门之灾的方法是让化石燃料为其导致的环境污染买单。
It"s easy to call global warming junk science as long as you are the one benefiting from burning fossil fuels to extract their energy.
如果你是烧别人的石油的受益者，你就称称全球变暖是科技进步表现。
But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.
但由于这个行业在很大程度上仍然依赖津贴去和化石燃料竞争，因此仍然不是一个真正的自由市场。
He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.
他指出即将于12月在哥本哈根达成协议的气候大会对于是否在世界范围内离开化石能源至关重要。
Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.
人类需要做出更多此类决定：不去开采地层下面的化石燃料，让雨林自然生长。