▶ Your Answer : In 21st century, thanks to development in transportation, we can move remote distance easily and comfortable by cars. And no matter where place are, we can migrate within 24 hours. However, there are problems. Because many people use their own car, exaust makes serious environment problems. Also there are severe traffic when people commute and travel on weekend. As well as there are a lot of car accidents and it makes people uncomfortable. To solve this, is increasing the price of petrol proper?
Increasing the price of gasoline is a temporary expedient. To begin with, people will decrease using cars because of rised price. But it can not be last long. People ride cars soon, finally, it just cause unnecessary accending of petrol. For instance, Korea increased a tax of cigarettes to prohibit people smoking from 2500won to 4500won, 80%. At first, nonsmokers were rised, but, the figure was decended before long. Just government made a profit. According to government, after increasing price of tobacco, a tax of tobacco in the fisrt quarter were gathered 100billion won more than last first-quarter. On the other hand, low income group have been criticizing the government.
As above, increasing the price of petrol is temporary solution. I think to solve growing traffic and pollution problems, competitive goods were needed such as, bus, train and bike. In Korea, almost the whole bus use natural gas. Contrary the cars, bus which use natural gas do not make exhaust and fine dust, so it is very environment-friendly. It is effective to solve traffic because many people can ride a bus.
To sum up, increasing the price of petrol is not only temporary solution, but also not fundamental. Therefore, to solve traffic and pollution problem, government has to make policies to revitalize public transportation. |
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