Increasing the Price of Petrol Is the Best Way
Written by Lilie
7.5 in Academic Writing
December 23, 2021
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?
This essay question is from Cambridge IELTS 8 Test 3 Writing Task 2.
Sample Essay
Traffic and pollution problems are becoming worse and worse. I completely disagree that raising petrol prices is the best method to solve these problems. I believe it would be more feasible to impose high charges for workplace parking and to encourage working from home.
Increasing the price of petrol only moderately would not have a great impact on car use. This is because people who use their car to commute and go to the shop every day have already developed a habit of doing so, and it is scientifically proved that once a habit is formed, it is hard to get rid of it. Therefore, they may well continue to use their car as a major means of travel unless petrol prices become extremely high. However, I think hiking fuel prices sharply is politically infeasible because it would hurt the entire economy since goods are now mainly transported by petrol-powered vehicles.
Instead, high workplace parking fees should be introduced. Unlike petrol prices, workplace parking charges would not affect the economy and so could be set at a price that is so high that people would leave their cars at home and opt for public transport. Additionally, companies could encourage their employees to work from home if possible. This policy could mean that many workers would not need to commute at all. The two methods mentioned above could significantly reduce road traffic in the rush hour since car commuters are the main cause of heavy traffic at this time. With fewer cars on the road, car emissions would decrease as well.
In conclusion, increasing petrol prices is not politically feasible and, therefore, is not the best way to cope with growing road traffic and pollution. It would be more effective to impose high workplace parking fees and encourage remote work.
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4 CommentsLeave A Comment
Thanks for your work. I need help. How can I write this kind of essay in a short time. Thanks in advance🙂
Unfortunately, it takes time.
The second question is what measureS……”More than one,” which you normally advise, for us to make separate paragraphs for each solution so one topic could be talked about. But here the two solutions occupied one paragraph with *Additionally* to link them up.
Hi joe, thanks for your comments. I learned it the hard way that we really need to be a little flexible. The two methods I wrote have the same effect, which is reducing road traffic in the rush hour and therefore reducing car emissions (Please read the last two sentences of the third paragraph). If I separate the two methods into two paragraphs, I need to mention “reducing road traffic in the rush hours” and “reducing car emissions” twice. You can certainly have two solution paragraphs if your solutions have different effects and you don’t need to say the same thing twice. Hope this clears up any confusion.