People think that government should increase the cost of fuel for cars and other vehicles to solve environmental problems. Give your opinion.

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It is widely believed that nobody can deny that one solution to environmental problems would be for the government to raise the price of petrol. To a certain extent, I agree that
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measure would be effective.
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believe that other measures might have an even better impact. If states raised taxes on petrol,
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would deal with two environmental concerns.
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of all, regarding private vehicles, drivers would limit the number and length of their journeys due to hesitation in paying increasing
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. Simultaneously, national authorities would introduce the upgrading and expansion of public transportation, so that people could conveniently travel to work, to school or to travel to shops and hospitals,
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.
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, from the freight services perspective, goods and products would have to be distributed from one place to another by rail rather than by truck. Both these mentioned methods contribute to
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down emissions from
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and
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help to reduce
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greenhouse gases.
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, despite the fact that the rise in fuel cost might be an effective stopgap measure, governments could introduce and adopt transport policies or regulations which could be more efficient in
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period. Take local authorities in London as an example. They introduced a congestion charge on all big vehicles visiting the city centre. The money raised from
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policy
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used to subsidize the cost of fares and to enhance transport infrastructure.
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has remarkably decreased exhaust fumes, and
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improved the air quality in the city.
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, introducing and encouraging the use of electric vehicles
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could greatly reduce the pollution level, and help to combat global warming. In conclusion, increasing
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cost would be a useful environmental-friendly transport measure,
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in long term other methods would have more influence.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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