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Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage

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Identify any fallacies in the following passage.
"A trans-American oil pipeline would be great for the economy.People against it just to
want to make it harder for us to drive big cars.They want to make us drive little tiny electric
cars that don't over 30 miles per hour and need to be charged up every night.Who wants
that!"


Definitions:

Just-noticeable Difference

The smallest change in the intensity of a stimulus that can be detected by a sensory system.

Sensory Adaptation

A decrease in sensitivity to a constant level of stimulation.

Absolute Threshold

The smallest amount of physical stimulation required to detect a sensory input half of the time it is present.

Signal Detection

A theory and method for quantifying the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns and random patterns that distract from the information.

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