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Opponent of offshore oil drilling: The projected benefits of drilling new oil wells in certain areas in the outer continental shelf are not worth the risk of environmental disaster. ███ ███ ███████ █████ █████████ ████ █████ █████ █████████ ████████ ████ █ ███████ ██ ███ █████████ █████ ███ ████████████ ███ ███ ███ █████ █████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ █ ████████
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Summarize Argument
The drilling proponent implicitly claims the opponent offers poor support when she claims new offshore wells aren’t worth the risk. He supports his criticism with an analogy: like farms, he argues, new wells shouldn’t be considered too risky just because each one makes a small contribution to the country’s overall consumption.
Notable Assumptions
The drilling proponent assumes that a new well and a new farm carry roughly equal risk, and that a new well makes at least as big a contribution to the country’s oil needs as a new farm makes to its food needs.
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