Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: At the end of 1997 several nations stated that their oil reserves had

The passage says that oil reserves gradually drop as old oil fields are drained and rise suddenly as new oil fields are discovered. If oil fields are being drained and new oil fields are being discovered, oil reserves would only remain the same if the amount of oil drained was EXACTLY equal to the amount of new oil discovered. The author suggests that this would be an unlikely coincidence. Thus, according to the argument, if a nation
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