爱思英语编者按：了解天下英语财经新闻，第2篇：The Age of Oil Still Going on 石油年代仍在继续，双语中英对照，解决英语阅读难点。
The Age of Oil continues; we need to deal with it. The upheaval1 in Egypt reminds us of lessons that, despite decades of warnings, Americans have consistently sidestepped2:. The United States and the rest of the world will depend on oil for the indefinite future; global oil markets remain hostage to political crises that cannot be predicted or controlled; and we have not taken the prudent steps that would reduce though not eliminate our vulnerability to catastrophic oil interruptions.