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?

It is often thought that the most effective way to reduce the alarming levels of traffic and pollution is to raise the cost of oil.

However

,

this

is not an optimal solution because, for the features of petrol

price

, it would not help dropping the quantities consumed.

Then

,

this

essay will argue why the best action that can be put into practice is to decrease the purchasing

price

of products whose fossil fuel use is almost zero. Because of the rigidity of oil prices, a rise in it would not make its usage diminish, making

such

a measure irrelevant and potentially harmful. Indeed, if the cost of petrol is very high, people needing it to fuel their vehicles would buy it no matter how much they have to pay.

Moreover

,

this

would have a negative effect on people’s budgets, especially on low-income families . It is proof of the fact that whenever the

price

of oil soars, the volume purchased does not fluctuate in any noticeable way. A much better alternative to the proposal would be that of decreasing the cost of the so-called “green” products, which are the ones using more sustainable types of energy.

On the other hand

, subsidizing electric vehicles would be beneficial for those families who cannot afford to buy one and for the whole community. As an example, in the Netherlands, there are many more electric cars than in the majority of countries,

due to

State incentives, and they succeed in partially solving the problem of traffic and having cleaner air. Many suggest that making the

price

of petrol higher would be the best solution for the over usage of cars and pollution.

On the contrary

,

this

essay has discussed why

such

a measure would not be beneficial for society and that a better alternative should be that of making less environmentally dangerous goods cheaper.