Chữa bài IELTS Task 2
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Topic: 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?
In recent years, the rise of petrol price has been a controversy topic in Vietnam and even in some parts of the world. While I agree it is a reasonable solution to control increasing traffic and to reduce the greenhouse gas emission, I believe there are other ways to deal with these problem effectively without causing negative objection of citizens.
On the one hand, when the price of petrol is inflated, people will minimize using their private transportation and choose public transportation instead in order to save their budget. Therefore, the number of cars and motorbikes on the street will decrease and not only will traffic jams be solved but also less gas pollution will be released to harming the environment. On the other hand, it is just a temporary solution and can only impact on the poors because the petrol price is not a big charge for those who can affort much greater things and as it is one of their daily need to travel, they will ready to pay it anyway. Eventually, people will find their way to cope with the rise of petrol price and nothing is changed.
In my opinion, there are better mesures that the gorvernments can have to handle the traffic and pollution problems instead of increasing the price of petrol. First, in order to reduce the growing traffic, public transport should be upgraded with more stops and priority on the road to travel faster and people should be encouraged to use them more frequently by lowering the price and showing the benefits of public transport to communities and to the environment. Moreover, the gorvernments can decrease the gas emission in a more effective way by creating and encourage people to use renewable and clean energy such as solar power or organic petrol from plants, which not only can be used for transportation but also for factories and the result will be much more optimistic and permanent.
In conclusion, increasing the petrol price is just a temporary and controversy way to manage with the traffic and pollution problems of several countries and I believe the mesures above can be better mesures to use.Kindly check!
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