IELTS ESSAY

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?

There is a belief, that rising petrol price can control heavy traffic and pollution crisis. But not all people completely agree with this. To solve these problems more actions must be done, such as improving public transport and using hybrid or electric cars.

One of the important reasons of crowded streets is that everyone wants to move using its own car, because of weak public transport system. For example, if there is no metro bus station for a downtown shopping center, like the city that I live in, everybody who wants to go there will use its car; then what’s the outcome? Heavy traffic. Another weakness in public transport is that they do not work 24/7. Here, in my city, almost after sunset there is no bus in streets, whilst in the long days of summer and spring people go out after sunset.

Another cause of this problem is fossil fuel that runs our vehicles. When gas or gasoline burns it produces carbon dioxide, which intensifies greenhouse effect and pollutes the air. Using hybrid or electric cars helps decreasing Co2 level in cities air, because when they use electricity to run the engine they won’t smoke Co2 to the air. But due to their expensive prices, most of people cannot afford to buy a hybrid card, so another solutions is using improved gasoline and efficient cars, those need less fuel to move same amount of distance of old cars.

However, incising fuel price definitely won’t solve such a big problem. When there are lots of cars in streets, it’s not because of low price of fossil fuels, it’s not cheap at all. People have to use their own cars, public transport systems are not efficient.

To wrap things up, growing traffic and pollution problems don’t have a single solution. To solve them we need to variety of actions, building better vehicles, using clean energy, and improving public transport systems. Despite these, rising petrol price will help also, lots of unnecessary travels will be gone.