【阅读】09/23起粤渡寂静整理（10/2更新，41篇原始，37篇考古）

billyisfragile!

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2010/01/14/salt-sellers

The price of salt
Salt sellers
A common commodity in short supply

Needed in spades
THE stuff is everywhere, but in snow-blanketed Britain there is not enough of it. Fears grow that the gritting salt that is keeping the country's transport system open is running out. Britain's salt mines are working round the clock and rationing is on the cards.

P1: 介绍了盐的不同用处，以及他们的生产。主要有三种，1，用来融雪的盐，最便宜，几十块钱一吨;2，工业用盐，稍微贵一点，一百多;3，食用盐，比较贵。专门举例说了一种法国的人工采集的什么盐，算下来要70000一吨。

Prices for different types of salt vary widely. The lowest grade of gritting salt for de-icing roads generally sells for around $40-50 a tonne in America and Britain. Refined salt used by the chemicals industry is more expensive, at up to $150 a tonne. At the top end of the range discerning gourmets pay the equivalent of $70,000 a tonne or more for fleur de sel, the highest-quality French sea salt, harvested by hand at picturesque locations but still the same sodium chloride.

P2: 眼和别的commodity不同，很多地方都能产，而且运费很高，所以盐主要是地域性的，很少进出口，(这个结论高亮了，问假设，我选了 ”大部分需要进口盐的国家都是小国家，而且没什么要用盐的“)。还说了日本就是从澳大利亚进口的盐。

The huge price differences are not the only things that distinguish salt from other commodities. Salt is not traded on any exchanges, there is no derivatives market and there is not much international trade. Because salt is cheap and plentiful in many parts of the world, yet bulky and expensive to transport, it is a heavily regional commodity. China, the world's biggest saltmaker, used the 60m tonnes it produced in 2007 at home. Where salt is exported it is to countries that cannot meet their own needs. Japan's chemicals industry imports most of its supplies from Australia.

Demand for industrial salt is steady and predictable. As a rule of thumb, the chemicals industry grows (or contracts) at roughly the same pace as the wider economy. Gritting salt, by contrast, is susceptible to large short-term fluctuations in demand. In countries such as America and Britain, where the weather is changeable, the chemicals industry accounts for some 40% of annual salt production and a similar proportion goes on slippery roads. (The rest goes on things like food and agriculture.)

Local governments generally sign contracts for gritting-salt supplies in the summer but heavy snowfall, such as Britain is experiencing at the moment, can exhaust stockpiles rapidly. Shortages boost prices, diverting salt set for industrial use to de-icing and encouraging imports from warmer climes. But because most traded salt is tied up in contracts, getting fresh supplies from abroad is a lengthy process. And by the time the salt arrives all that snow may have melted anyway.

cuteAlyssa

谢谢

Mkformat

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alicemouse123

想請教考古的部分要怎麼在板上查找呢? 謝謝還是說檔案裏面考古以下的部分就是考古了

雪梨加油

谢谢您

Sxxxxxu

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一战740

求更新

nowhere!

太感谢了

lzw19962018

辛苦

钱宝

感谢！但是附件挂的还是40篇的版本 并没有看到第41篇？