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One of the main causes for air pollution and depletion of oil reserves in Country X is the use of petrol as fuel in most cars. In recent years, however, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has managed to impose high tax rates on the acquisition of new petrol-fuelled cars, and last year an additional Gas Emissions tax was applied to all petrol-fuelled car owners. Since owning a petrol-based car has now become a significant financial liability, car drivers nationwide are replacing their old petrol-only cars with hybrid cars or bio-diesel-fuelled cars, which create less pollution and consume less, if any,petrol . It is foreseen that this step will lead to a decrease in pollution and to the stabilization of oil prices over the next decade ortwo .
In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
A. The first is evidence describing a relationship of cause and effect; the second is further evidence focusing on theeffect.
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Statistics : Posted by Bunuel • on 01 Jan 2024, 01:30 • Replies 6 • Views 823
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