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

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recent decades the

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.

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approach

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has placed Sweden in the top 10 clean and

pollution free

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countries. If

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

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but

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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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

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half. Car-pooling is when a group of

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

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and more comfortable. In Egypt

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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cars

by sharing theirs.

Pollution

and

traffic

jams can, not only harm us

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the short term by decreasing our quality of life

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but

also

on

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the long term by leaving our planet unfit for future generations.

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is why a combined effort in reducing

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

.