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Mayor: Citing the severity of the city's winters, the city road commissioner has suggested paving our roads with rubberized asphalt, since the pressure of passing vehicles would cause the rubber to flex, breaking up ice on roads and so making ice removal easier and less of a strain on the road-maintenance budget. ████████ ██████████ ███████ ██ ████ █████████ ████ █████ ███████ ███ ███ ██████ ██████ ███ ████████ ███ ███████████ █████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ██████████ ███ ██████████████ ██████████ ██ ███ ███████████ █████████
Summary
The mayor concludes that it’s not financially feasible to pave the city’s roads with rubberized asphalt, which would make winter ice removal easier and less expensive. Why not? Because rubberized asphalt is more expensive than regular asphalt—and the city cannot increase its budget to build and maintain roads.
Notable Assumptions
For the argument to make sense, the mayor must assume that using rubberized asphalt would require increasing the city’s road budget, despite any cost savings during winter ice removal. In other words, the necessary assumption is that rubberized asphalt would increase costs by a greater amount than the savings it would create.
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