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More and more people are relying on the private car as their major means of transportation. Describe some of the problems overreliance on cars can cause, and suggest at least one possible solution.  Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words.

More and more people are relying on the private car as their major means of transportation. Describe some of the problems overreliance on cars can cause, and suggest at least one possible solution.  Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words.
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Private
cars
 have been in
use
 for decades as
people
’s means of transportation
instead
 of public
transport
such
 as
bus
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buses
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,
train
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trains
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, and
taxi
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taxis
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.
Such
 habit has contributed to some problems
of
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 their
environments
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environment
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 including the increase
of
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in
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fuel
use
,
air
pollution
, and traffic jam. The increase
of
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in
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fuel
use
 can give rise to
the
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more
fuel
 produced by exploiting dead fossil remains under the sea which
are
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 called
the
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non-renewable
energy
.
Such
energy
 will vanish in the coming future if more and more explorations are conducted. When
the
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non-renewable
energy
 disappears,
people
 can neither drive their
cars
 nor
use
 public
transport
 for daily
accomodation
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accommodation
.
Therefore
,
people
 should lessen the
use
 of private
cars
, and shift their habit to using public
transport
instead
private
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of private
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 vehicles to save more
fuel
 as the non-renewable
energy
 on earth.
Air
pollution
 has
also
 become one of the effects of using private
cars
 because the more vehicles are used, the more
pollution
 they cause. When
people
 drive their own
cars
, it certainly produces more carbon dioxide
to
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in
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 the
air
 going up
to
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into
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 the atmosphere resulting in the increasing
tempearature
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temperature
temperatures
 on the earth. The hotter the earth, the more uncomfortable
people
 live.
As a consequence
,
people
 had better
use
 public
transport
 to decrease the number of
air
pollution
 in the atmosphere. The next problem caused by the overreliance
of
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on
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 private
cars
 is traffic
jam
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jams
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. It is one of the disturbing
aspect
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 of
people
’s daily lives as it sticks drivers on the street for quite a long time making workers or students come late to work or
schools
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school
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 and
contribute
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 to more
air
pollution
 as well.
As a result
, public
transport
 can be a solution to
this
 problem. In summary,
people
 need to decrease their overreliance
to
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on
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 private
cars
 and shift to using public
transport
 for
better
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a better
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 environment.
Healthy
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 environment contributes to
people
’s healthy lives.
Hence
, considering the problems caused by private
cars
,
people
 had better start using public
transport
 as their daily accommodation.
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