The correct answer is the first option "This is the direct cause of the long lines which have made millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline.” Fallacious reasoning is the use of an invalid rationale for the construction of an argument, which can be used intentionally or as a cause of ignorance. In this case, the waiting for the lack of gasoline had been exagerated by stating that "millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline." This statement implies that at least 2 million people had spent at least 2 hours waiting for gasoline, data which seems very unlikely and hard to prove.