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ID: LSAT-LR-38
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Medium

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Although electric vehicles (EVs) typically generate more carbon emissions during manufacturing than gasoline-powered cars, widespread adoption of EVs could actually decrease overall greenhouse-gas emissions nationwide. Drivers of EVs rely on electricity that is increasingly produced from renewable sources, and their vehicles emit no exhaust while operating. Thus, if a large proportion of motorists switch to EVs, the nation's total transportation-related emissions will fall despite the higher manufacturing footprint of each individual EV.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the argument by the claim that widespread adoption of EVs could actually decrease overall greenhouse-gas emissions nationwide?

AIt is used to support the conclusion that governments ought to subsidize electric-vehicle purchases.

BIt is a statement offered to call into question the claim that EV manufacturing produces more carbon emissions than manufacturing gasoline cars.

CIt is a statement serving merely to introduce the topic to be addressed in the argument and plays no logical role.

DIt is a premise offered in support of the conclusion that electric vehicles produce more manufacturing emissions than gasoline-powered vehicles.

EIt is a claim that the rest of the argument is designed to establish.

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