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

It is a saying that higher

price

of

petrol

is the best solution to tackle the increasing

traffic

and

pollution

problems

. I totally disagree with it, and

this

essay will explain why and gives my opinion about other effective measures. There are several reasons why increasing the

price

of

petrol

is not the best way to solve these

problems

. The

first

thing is that the volume of

traffic

will not have a significant decrease due to the high

petrol

price

. If

petrol

becomes higher,

people

would like to choose electrical

cars

, which means the number of

cars

will not decline.

Hence

, it will not solve growing

traffic

.

Secondly

, the main resource of

pollution

is not

cars

. When gasoline's

price

is higher,

people

could disuse their

cars

,

for instance

, they may choose electrical

cars

or public transportation, whereas it only has a fewer influence, because the

pollution

from automobile emissions is not the main

pollution

.

However

, we can use other methods to solve these

problems

. On the one hand, we can improve the city's public transportation.

People

do not like it, because it is not reliable and makes

people

feel uncomfortable due to exploring an unclean environment. If public transport is improved,

people

will choose more public transport, which means there will be less

traffic

on the road, and

traffic

congestion will be alleviated.

On the other hand

, the government should restrict

pollution

from factories.

For example

, the government can issue laws to strictly limit the

pollution

of factories.

Pollution

from factories is much more than others, if it can be controlled under a reasonable standard, it will significantly reduce the global total

pollution

. In conclusion, increasing the

price

of

petrol

can not effectively solve

traffic

congestion and

pollution

, and the above two

problems

can be effectively alleviated through public transportation and factory

pollution

control.