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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? Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

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The given column chart illustrates the figure for the annual
income
 of families in the US in 2007, 2011 and 2015.
Overall
, over
this
 period (
the
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 2011), the number of Americans with high
income
 was more than others and increased after 8 years,
while
 the number of people with middle
income
 remained constant. In 2007, the number of families with
income
 of less than $25000 in a
year
 was about 25
million
,
while
 that of
income
 of dollar 25000-49999 stood at about 27
million
. From
this
year
 till 2011, these numbers increased slightly by about 4
million
 in both groups, after which these numbers decreased again by roughly 2
million
. Over the entire period, the figure for dollars 50000-74000 stayed roughly the same at about 21
million
 and the households with
income
 of dollars 75000-99999 were at about 14
million
. It can be seen clearly families with high
income
 which is more than dollars 100000 per
year
 were about 29
million
 in the first
year
 and after a slight fall of 2
million
, it increased again dramatically by 6
million
 which took the first level in
this
 statistic.
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