June 2007 PrepTest, Section 2, Question 8

By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024

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Dang, so charging the batteries is the issue? And charging them under any of the three methods will produce considerable environmental damage? Then, we need to conclude that the electric car will still degrade the environment through its auto emissions (I wove the end of the passage’s first sentence into the end of this one).
A
Yeah, the proponents think it will “result in an abatement of the environmental degradation caused by auto emissions.” But the author says, “not so fast. Your battery charging will cause serious environmental damage!”
B
Nope. Popularity might not be affected by environmental harm caused.
C
Nah. It might succeed still with the environmental harms.
D
Nah. It might still be less than gas-guzzlers.
E
Nope, for essentially the same reason as D.

Passage

Proponents of the electric car maintain that when the techni

Question 8

Which one of the following most logically completes the argu