Read the passage below and identify the charged language that is used to persuade the reader Add high energy prices to a sagging economy in an election year and politicians will inevitably come up with bad
policies, like converting the com crop into ethanol or John McCain's proposal to suspend the federal gas ta- nether
will provide real relief at the pump while both are guaranteed to create other problems.
The good news is that Congress failed last week to cut a deal on two more bad ideas Republicans misguided pusi
for offshore dimiling and Democrats misbegotten plan to our speculation in oil futures.
Republicans should know that allowing more shore drilling might marginally mimoil prices - in about a decade-
while sacrificing important environmental protections. Democrats should know that financial speculation is not whars
dhuing oil prices and that curbing fuures trading could hamper the ability of companies like a lines and oil refineries
to manage the risks by looking in the price of all Putting them together is compounding one bad idea with another