美国人总有种错觉，认为围绕着廉价石油和大排量汽车的生活方式是自己的天然权利，对提高燃油经济性标准的渴望已经持续了很多年，但政客们却像对待瘟疫一样避之唯恐不及。
Under the illusion that lifestyles revolving around cheap oil and big cars were America’s perennial right, fuel-economy standards languished for decades, and politicians avoided the t-word like the plague.