Buenos Aires—Argentina’s newly appointed energy minister Juan Jose Aranguren has said he will seek to rebuild investors’ confidence in the country by improving business conditions after he takes office on December 10. Aranguren, who comes to the post after years working as the chief executive of Shell Argentina, said he will cut energy subsidies and push for a rapid increase in energy production to reduce imports. He called it “a crime” to subsidize energy in a country that imports 15% of its energy needs and has rich resources of oil, gas and renewable power, and argued that subsidised energy was a characteristic only of energy exporting countries.
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机译：布宜诺斯艾利斯-阿根廷新任能源部长胡安·何塞·阿兰古伦（Juan Jose Aranguren）表示，他将在12月10日上任后寻求通过改善商业条件来重建投资者对该国的信心。阿兰古伦（Aranguren）在担任首席执行官多年后担任该职位。壳牌阿根廷公司的总裁表示，他将削减能源补贴，并推动迅速增加能源产量以减少进口。他称，在一个进口能源需求量占15％并拥有丰富的石油，天然气和可再生能源资源的国家中，对能源进行补贴是“犯罪”，并指出，补贴能源仅是能源出口国的特征。
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