Increasing the price of petrol is the best way to solve growing traffic and pollution problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree? What other measures do you think might be effective?

With economic growth, there are more and more people can afford to buy a

car

.

However

,

this

caused

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raffic jam and environmental issues. Some people said that the best solution is to make the cost of

oil

go up. I think it is a direct and efficient way to solve both problems in short terms, but perhaps it is not the best way.

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to

this

fact, to solve the problems in the long terms, the government

also

has to release some policies with its connected institutions. The will to drive a

car

is directly affected by the cost. If the price of

oil

is increased, some groups of people are stressed about it.

Therefore

, driving

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private cars will be less, and they will prefer to use public

transportation

such

as buses, trains, subways or carpools. In

this

case, the number of

traffic

will decrease as well as

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traffic

pollution.

Furthermore

, if there were a new buyer who

want

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to buy a

car

, considering the cost of

oil

is high, maybe he would give up to buy

one

for now.

As a result

, raising the price of

oil

can salve both problems immediately and efficiently. Reduced the demand for cars and increased the willingness to taking public

transportation

are

also

the solutions in long terms. To deal with the growing

traffic

problem,

first

of all, the government should stop people

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buying a

car

. Raising the tax of cars would be

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one

way. If the tax is too high to afford it, people will choose not to buy

one

.

On the other hand

, the government can release some promotion for taking public

transportation

.

This

method would encourage more people to take

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ublic

one

transportation

rather than

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themself. To sum up, private cars bring us a lot of conveniences but

this

also

causes problems at the same time. Now, there are too many cars on the road and pollution issues is are more serious. To solve the problems immediately, increasing the price of fuel is the fastest method to slow down the growth of problems.

However

, raising the cars’ tax and promoting public

transportation

are the methods to solve it from the roots.