Writing Task 2

Higher price of petrol is often considered as the most effective way to cope with traffic and pollution problems. I totally agree with that, and I can number some additional solutions and ideas.

First of all, petrol is the most consumed type of fuel. Therefore, increasing in price would affect on traffic density, since drivers would start to think about how to reduce casual distance covered by car. If we had increased price of petrol, we would already have been using renewable sources of energy. Multiple studies show that transition to renewable energy would instantly affect on environment positively. In other words, pollution problem would be also solved.

The other considerable method of reducing traffic and pollution is banning or limiting using old cars. The reason for this is that old cars release more traffic fumes which results into polluted environment. Furthermore, since relatively fresh cars are more expensive than old ones, not everyone could afford buying them. That is to say that traffic would be lower than usual. To illustrate, UAE has introduced a new law about using old cars. If you use old car in UAE, the government will oblige you with unbearable taxes so that it is better to buy a new car. As a result, traffic density was cutted nearly by a half and environment has become a little bit more cleaner.

In conclusion, higher prices on petrol would definitely affect on traffic and environment because of matter of money. There is also an example of banning old cars like in UAE to prevent pollution and overwhelmed traffic on roads.