penco wrote:
Hey Can anyone help me with the 2nd question.
I went with B because along with jobs, the passage also says, it has potential to free from addiction to foreign barrel (2nd para) and also empowering middle class( Para 3 ). I though the passage want to say Increased investment will help america multifariously.
Can anyone help to see where I went wrong?
Hi
penco,
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A. Demonstrating that increased investment in achieving energy independence will create more jobs.
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B. Proving that the upside of investing in achieving energy independence is not limited to creating jobs.
We need to understand the complete context of this sentence: "This has the potential to free us from our addiction to foreign-sourced barrels," as author further mentions : "particularly if we utilize our dramatically larger and cheaper reserves of natural gas, which now costs the equivalent of less than $15 per barrel, versus the $100-plus per barrel of oil we import from the Middle East.
The money saved by the increased use of natural gas has helped in greater investments and has created more than 75,000 jobs domestically.", implying that the amount saved by reducing the dependency on foreign-sourced barrels has helped increase more than 75k jobs.
Then w.r.t empowering middle class, author mentions: "...expand America's middle class, because energy investments are a particularly effective method of "insourcing" manufacturing jobs, which in turn spur jobs in invention, installation, and maintenance." again that middle class can most benefit by the increase in the number of jobs.
Basically everything is revolving around how the increased investment in achieving energy independence will in turn create more jobs for the Americans,
thus A is the more accurate answer.Hope This Helps.
Thanks.