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?
It is true that in
the
recent decades the Correct article usage
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use
of gas
has remarkably increased. In light of such
growth in petrol
use
, streets have become more crowded and the environment more polluted. To solve these issues, some people
think that charging extra for petrol
might help. In my view, increasing petrol
's prices
is a positive step but also
is employing alternatives like driving electric cars
and car-pooling.
Increasing the charges for gas
can itself improve traffic
and environmental conditions. This
is simply because, with higher fares, there are far more reasons to save money by driving less and using cars
only for important or far trips. In Sweden for instance
, petrol
is very expensive, so people
tend to use
bicycles instead
to save money. Such
approach
has placed Sweden in the top 10 clean and Correct article usage
an approach
pollution free
countries. If Add a hyphen
pollution-free
gas
is cheap and constantly within reach, our planet's future will keep being in danger and our communities will grow even more crowded. Therefore
an increase in prices
will not only refrain people
from using more cars
,
but Remove the comma
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also
will help our environment stay clean.
In addition
to elevating petrol
prices
, other approaches such
as electric cars
and car-pooling can be a golden solution. Using cars
that function with electricity will spare the toxic gases like carbon monoxide, hence
the severe pollution
. Taking U.S.A
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the U.S.A
for example
, they have started driving Elon Mask's Tesla electric vehicles and in some states like Illinois, pollution
has greatly fallen. If it wasn't for that invention, humanity's rate of pollution
would have been much greater. Alongside electric cars
, car-pooling can also
be an effective measure to reduce pollution
and traffic
jams by almost the
half. Car-pooling is when a group of Correct article usage
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people
have similar destinations so they share one car and its gas
fare instead
of each one of them driving his own. Such
measure encourages people
as it's cost saving
and more comfortable. In Egypt Add a hyphen
cost-saving
for example
, for the sake of the streets and environment, a mobile application called "ride together" has been recently launched to incentivise people
to drive less
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fewer
cars
by sharing theirs. Pollution
and traffic
jams can, not only harm us on
the short term by decreasing our quality of lifeChange preposition
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,
but Remove the comma
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also
on
the long term by leaving our planet unfit for future generations. Change preposition
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Which
is why a combined effort in reducing Correct pronoun usage
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pollution
by using less petrol
through sharing cars
and driving electrical ones, will surely be effective.
In conclusion, although
cars
are very important nowadays, I strongly agree that their use
should be limited. With higher petrol
prices
, people
will be encouraged to drive non-petrol
non-polluting cars
and share rides, which will altogether lead to a decline in traffic
and pollution
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