92. The following is taken from an editorial in a local newspaper.
Over the past decade, the price per pound of citrus fruit has increased substantially. Eleven years ago, Megamart charged 5 cents apiece for lemons, but today it commonly charges over 30 cents apiece. In only one of these last eleven years was the weather unfavorable for growing citrus crops. Evidently, then, citrus growers have been responsible for the excessive increase in the price of citrus fruit, and strict pricing regulations are needed to prevent them from continuing to inflate1 prices.
当地报纸的社论：
过去的10年里，桔类水果的价格事实上上升了。11年前，Megamart每一个柠檬要价5分，目前一般要价为30分一个。过去11年只有一年不合适桔类水果成长。显然，柑桔种植者应该对桔类水果价格过度上涨负责。为预防他们继续哄抬价格规范价格规定非常有必要。
1， 小范围推大范围。
2， 忽视他因，是不是只有一种原因致使价格上升不合适成长。。。还有，譬如环境保护，加工价格上升，人力本钱上升，或者单纯的物价上涨。。。monetary2 inflation, increased distribution and labor3 cosplayts, or alterations4 in supply and demand conditions
1， 柠檬缺少代表性，或者说，柠檬有其特殊性，譬如柠檬都是进口的，比较贵；
2， 天气好未必代表物价要低，由于种植柑橘的农民已经动用了可用的资源了，产量没办法再多了；
3， 是不是物价高就是农民肆意抬高的原故，可能是dealers在其中有哪些用途；
4， 政府是不是要介入，虽然价格变贵了，但targeted customers没变化，对整个国民经济影响不大
In this editorial the author argues for the imposition of strict pricing regulations in order to prevent citrus growers from continued inflation of prices of citrus fruit. The need for such regulation is supported by the authors contention5 that citrus growers have been unnecessarily raising prices of citrus fruit in the past. The evidence for this allegation is the fact that the price of lemons at Megamart has increased from 15 cents per pound to over a dollar a pound during the preceding 11-year period. The author maintains that this increase is unjustifiable because weather conditions have been favorable to citrus production in all but one of those years. This argument is flawed for several reasons.
First and foremost, the author assumes that the only factor that influences the price of citrus fruit is the weather. Other factors such as monetary inflation, increased distribution and labor cosplayts, or alterations in supply and demand conditions are completely ignored as possible sources for the increase. The charge that citrus growers have unnecessarily raised prices can be sustained only if these and other possible factors can be completely ruled out as contributing to the price increases. Since the author fails to address these factors, the recommendation calling for strict pricing regulations can be dismissed out of hand as frivolous6.
Second, the author assumes that the only way to combat increased prices is through government intervention7. In a free enterprise system many other means of affecting the pricing of goods are available. For example, boycotting8 a product and thereby9 influencing supply and demand conditions of the commodity is an effective means of influencing the price of the product. In a free market economy the call for price regulation by the government should occur only when all other means to rectify10 the problem have been exhausted11.
In conclusion, the authors argument is unconvincing. To strengthen the argument it would be necessary to show that the only factor influencing the price increases is the growers desire for increased profits.