Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In twenty years there will be fewer cars in use than there are today. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Cars

are, without a doubt, one of the most common modes of transportation, and many people

use

them for their daily commutes.

However

, some experts predict that they will be replaced in the near future. I am among those who believe that the

number

of

cars

in

use

will decrease, and I will explain why in the section that follows.

First

, according to statistics, our natural resources

such

as oil and

gas

will decrease sharply over the

next

two decades, and the scarcity of these materials will dramatically increase the price of

such

chemicals. Donald et al. disclosed in a recently published paper that the price of a litre of gasoline in Los Angeles, California will exceed $200 in less than ten years. Evidently, the majority of people cannot afford

such

high prices and must

instead

rely on public transportation. As the

number

of people who can fuel their

cars

decreases, the market demand for

cars

will plummet, and many car manufacturers will fail and close their production lines. To make a long story short, it appears that drastic changes to the fuel that automobiles consume are required to predict anything other than a decline in the

number

of automobiles in

use

.

Second

, many may argue that technological revolutions and green fuels will change the game and the paradigm, respectively. The leading candidate is hydrogen fuels. Li-ion batteries and Solid Oxide Fuel Cells are being developed to replace current engines that

use

Hydrogen and produce water as a byproduct of H2

gas

combustion. It has been demonstrated that these two novel engines are not suitable replacements, as vehicles using

such

energy sources may necessitate a revolution in many infrastructures,

such

as

gas

stations

. In order to charge the new batteries,

gas

stations

must be completely replaced with new energy

stations

. Taking into account the

number

of

stations

and the entire time- and cost-intensive process of constructing the required structures, it does not make sense.

Therefore

, there are significant obstacles to developing

such

advanced automobiles, and many nations, including developing nations, will be unable to promote the

use

of these cutting-edge vehicles. I concur that automobile

use

will not be as widespread as it is today. The high prices of nonrenewable resources, on the one hand, and the financial difficulties that many countries may encounter when constructing the necessary infrastructures,

on the other hand

, will prevent their continued

use

. I can envision clearly the day when public transportation will predominate and private car ownership will be obsolete.