One of the Problems with Finding New Fossil Fuel Deposits

question 19

Multiple Choice

One of the problems with finding new fossil fuel deposits in developing countries is that ________________.

• A) it is very expensive to transport the deposit elsewhere
• B) international companies move in to harvest the new deposit, and very little money or resource remains in the country
• C) their governments seldom allow extraction of the deposit without meeting expensive environmental regulations
• D) those countries tend to keep the resource for themselves, not sharing with other countries
• E) their governments seldom allow extraction of the deposit without imposing huge taxes to fund new social benefits for the country

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