People tend to argue that the government should increase the price of gasoline and electricity to encourage energy conservation since people follow only when they are compelled. However, the jury is still out, I cannot agree with the idea because the rich people will ignore the price whether it is high or low. Furthermore, there are more effective ways to encourage people to save energy such as campaign.
First of all, increasing the price is not good way because people who are rich and not interesting to the price will not be affected from the policy. Thus, it will be dangerous since only the poor people will become worst. Take my friend as a example. One of my friends, Tom, who is a only son of the chairman of Samsung, the most huge company of the Korea is never mind how much it is when he buy something. He even buys a brand-new car, BMW 521, which is about 10 billion dollar just because he wants another car. In fact it is his 10th car! I never guess he will conserve the energy even though the government makes the price of gasoline and electricity high.
In addition, it will be more effective use campaign in order to encourage people to preserve them. This is because people tend not to favor when they are forced to do something. According to my experience, it is very obvious. When I study in Japan as a exchange student, I surprised because there are no trashes anywhere. I realize that Japan is so spotless. Finally, I happen to know why Japan is so clean from the professor. He explained that Japan government makes use of the campaign in order to incur people to observe public order. I believe that my government should learn from this and know advantages of public campaign.
In conclusion, I wholeheartedly believe that increasing the price of gasoline and electricity is not only way to stimulate people to save energy. The reasons are not only the wealthy people will neglect the price but also there are better way to encourage people. It is the worst way to screw someone to do something that I want.
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