There is a good deal of evidence that increasing car use is contributing to global warming and having other undesirable effects on people's health and well-being. What can be done to discourage people from using their car?

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The number of cars in the world
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raises
significantly in recent years,
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there are tons of evidences that indicate the increase of
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has been contributing to global warming and having other negative effects on people's health for years. In
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essay I will outline 2 ways in which governments can do to discourage people from using private cars. One possible approach is to make cars expensive to own and
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,
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, by taxing on trade of cars and increasing the road taxes. These policies might not only reduce the number of cars, but
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create additional revenue for the governments. One drawback,
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, is that increasing the taxes may not reduce the
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purchases unless provide better alternative means of
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. Another way in which to discourage people from using private
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is by making alternative methods of
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conveniently
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as MRT, bus and other forms of public
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. Take cities in Taiwan as
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an example
, compare Taipei
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to
Kaohsiung. The people who live in Kaohsiung prefer to drive due to the public transportation is inconvenient. The complete public transportation system can encourage people to give up the idea of buying cars. All things considered, if increasing the taxes of
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to make it expensive to own and
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, people will be unwilling to purchase cars.
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, it may not reduce the
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without
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providing
better public
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to be alternative means. To reduce the number of using private cars, both methods should be implemented at the same time.
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