The author posits that investment in consolidated industries will yield a good amount of profits as it is one of whose major business operations is the retail sale of home heating oil. To bolster his statement the author has provided further evidence. One of them is most homes in the North Eastern side which have typically cold winters use oil as their major fuel for heating. Secondly, last heating season that region experienced 90 days with below-normal temperatures, and climate forecasters predict that this weather pattern will continue for several more years. Furthermore, many new homes are being built in the region in response to recent population growth. To consider the argument is viable the author has to go through scrupulous discussions and provide answers for the below 3 questions.
Firstly, the advancement of technologies is never mentioned. There might be a chance that instead of using oil they could opt for heaters with the developing technology which would actually cost the people less in terms of money for making the environment in the home warm. If once this trend begins more and more different kind of products will be launched which will help in avoiding the use of non-renewable resources. If this is considered a valid fact the argument would be undermined.
In addition, the list of all resources that are in demand are never discussed. For instance, when bitcoin considered it has yielded an enormous profits in the last 10 years which would be comparably less than the profits gained through investment in oil resources. people could also choose mutual funds and consider trading to gain amply results in flourishing their wealth. There is no particular guarantee that the profits of the oil company would be high all the time. There can be competitors and scarcity of this resources which in turn leads to loss of the investments.
Lastly, the environment is not always static. With the pollution augmenting day by day there would be substantial increase in temperature world wide which in turn leads to global warming and the intensity of cold gradually mitigates everywhere. These negative effects no more need oil to heat the temperature which are already high. Glaciers are already melting which shows a fact that there would be no future for such industries.
To conclude, the argument is flawed with various unwarranted assumptions and author should provide further evidence and answers to consider this tenable. At this point the argument is dubious and almost falls flat with these misleading questions.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 417 350
No. of Characters: 2102 1500
No. of Different Words: 227 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.519 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.041 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.673 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.85 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.961 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.45 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.274 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.274 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.051 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 422, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ing the use of non-renewable resources. If this is considered a valid fact the arg...
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Line 3, column 144, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'profit'?
Suggestion: profit
...n considered it has yielded an enormous profits in the last 10 years which would be com...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 265, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: People
...ed through investment in oil resources. people could also choose mutual funds and cons...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 513, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...here can be competitors and scarcity of this resources which in turn leads to loss o...
^^^^
Line 4, column 138, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: worldwide
... be substantial increase in temperature world wide which in turn leads to global warming a...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 138, Rule ID: WORLD_WIDE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'worldwide'?
Suggestion: worldwide
... be substantial increase in temperature world wide which in turn leads to global warming a...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, furthermore, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, as to, for instance, in addition, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2139.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 417.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12949640288 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75320857488 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541966426859 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.8372743412 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.857142857 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8571428571 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258289793033 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659604011916 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0947095609583 0.0701772020484 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132016965976 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.134852911552 0.0628817314937 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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