Marlo Lewis Comment on EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Motor Vehicle Standards 74%

12/1/2009, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Begging the Question, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 27.3% saturation with 15 hits. Analysis detected 95 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.5% and a BS Rank of 74% (5,892 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.10% of the article peer group.

EPA should withdraw its proposal to establish GHG 
emission standards for new motor vehicles. 
The proposed standards: (1) 
lack an adequate scientific basis; (2) will increase the risk of death 
and injury related to auto accidents; and (3) will spawn an 
economically-chilling regulatory morass. 
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