The writer is managing partner at TWG Global and a former senior adviser to former president Joe Biden
本文作者是TWG Global的管理合伙人，曾任乔•拜登(Joe Biden)总统的高级顾问
In June 2022, I was serving as the White House’s senior energy adviser when the national average for gasoline prices crossed $5.02 per gallon for the first time in American history. I know precisely what that number does to an administration: the calls, the scramble, the acute political anxiety that descends when a price that every American sees crosses a threshold that feels symbolic as much as economic.
2022年6月，美国全国平均汽油价格史上首次突破每加仑5.02美元时，我正担任白宫高级能源顾问。我深知这个数字对任何一届美国行政当局的影响：当每个美国人都看到汽油价格突破一个既有象征意义又有经济意义的关口时，强烈的政治焦虑随之而来，电话不断响起，众人陷入忙乱。
That moment is coming again. And, by coincidence, it is arriving at the same point in the political calendar — in June of a midterm election year. This time, however, the toolkit that worked before is largely spent.
这样的时刻即将再次到来。巧合的是，它发生在政治日历上的同一节点——中期选举年的6月。然而这一次，以往奏效的工具基本上已经用尽。