标题: 天山4-Q21 (没找到有讨论过) [打印本页] 作者: sangchangtw 时间: 2010-2-20 05:03 标题: 天山4-Q21 (没找到有讨论过) The OLEX Petroleum Company has recentlydetermined that it could cut its refining costs by closing itsGrenville refinery and consolidating all refining at its Tasbergrefinery. Closing the Grenville refinery, however, would mean the immediate loss of about 1,200 jobs in the Grenville area. Eventually the lives of more than 10,000 people would be seriously disrupted. Therefore, OLEX's decision, announced yesterday, to keep Grenville open shows that at OLEX social concerns somtimes outweigh the desire for higher profits.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermine the argument given?
(A) The Grenville refinery, although it operates at a higher cost than the Tasberg refinery, has nevertheless been moderatly profitably for many years. (B) Even though OLEX could consolidate all its refining at the Tasberg plant, doing so at the Grenville plant would not be feasible. (C) The Tasberg refinery is more favorably situated than the Grenville refinery with respect to the major supply routes for raw petroleum. (D) If the Grenville refinery were ever closed and operations at the Tasberg refinery expanded, job openings at Tasberg would to the extent possible be filled with people formerly employed at Grenville. (E) Closure of the Grenville refinery would mean compliance, at enormous cost, with demanding local codes regulating the cleanup of abondaned industrial sites. Ans: E