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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.

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.

This challenges the analogy drawn by the drilling proponent. New wells and new farms demand dissimilar cost-benefit calculations if they carry dissimilar risks while contributing similarly small amounts to the overall output of their products.

The drilling proponent does not advocate that the same land be used for farming and drilling—he simply draws an analogy between the two practices.

This dissimilarity does not damage the drilling proponent’s analogy, which requires only that nutritional needs and fuel requirements be similarly large—not that they be fulfilled by the same product.

This isn’t relevant to the drilling proponent’s argument, which doesn’t cite the legality or regulatory ease of either farming or drilling.

This doesn’t damage the analogy drawn by the drilling proponent. New farms may still contribute a very small proportion to the overall nutritional needs of that country, even if it imports lots of food.

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