Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: To build a gas plant here, you need a pipeline, water, power lines, and supportive neighbors. We have the lines, but the only spots with both a pipeline and water are spots where the neighbors will definitely protest.

Reasoning: A new gas plant requires four specific conditions; while the country has transmission lines, the only locations with both water and pipelines are places where residents would block the project.

Analysis: This stimulus sets up a series of necessary conditions for a specific outcome. By combining the requirements, we see a 'dead end' scenario: the physical requirements (water and pipelines) only overlap in areas where the social requirement (lack of opposition) is guaranteed to be violated. Therefore, we can infer that under the current circumstances, no new natural-gas-powered stations can be built. Look for an answer that reflects this impossibility based on the conflict between location needs and resident behavior.

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The analyst's statements, if true, most strongly support which one of the following statements about the analyst's country?

Correct Answer
C
Since the only places where pipelines run near large bodies of water face resident opposition to significant construction, no current site meets all requirements. Thus expanding the pipeline system is necessary to even make a suitable site possible.
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