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独立The best way to reduceair pollution is for the government to raise the cost of fuel People nowadays are attaching moreimportance to the issue of environmental pollution , especially to airpollution . Even just from looking at the news about the haze in Beijing, onecan imagine the seriousness of air pollution in China. In order to cope withthis problem , some people believe that the best way to reduce air pollution isfor the government to raise the cost of fuel. According to the principle of economics , a priceincrease will lead to a demand decrease, which will definitely decrease thegasese released into the open air. However, this is an unwise decision. First , raising the price do have someeffects ,but it will cause some unintended disasters, such as inflation. Admittedly, raising the price willdecrease the consumption of fuel, but we have to recognize that this regulationonly has an effect on the people who use private cars for transportation. Andfor reducing air pollution , that's notenough. What's worse, raising price may have some unintended consequences onpeoples' lives. The link between petrol price and world economy is becomingincreasingly close. Small changes in energy price will lead to big fluctuationsin the world economy , since the energy is the raw material of many everydayconsumptions, such as clothes. Thus ,I strongly disagree with the idea ofraising the cost of fuel. In fact , to reduce air pollution ,it isvital to know as much as possible whatattributes to air pollttion. Without this knowledge we can only resolve part ofthe problem, and we will fail to solve the question completely. Perhaps , theburning of fuel may contribute to only a small part of total air pollution.There are many other pollutants, such as industrial gas that may have aserious impact. The past 30 years witnessed the rapid economic growth of China.However, it also witnessed the air condition from bad to worse, since so manymanufactures set up in China. Most of them run day and night ,and never stoppouring industrial gas into the air .Only through governing of industrial gaswill we get our fresh air back, and wipe the haze .As individuals we shouldalso contribute ourselves to the air cleaning program. For example, we can usepublic transportation as much as possible, and plant more trees. From the discussion above, I adhere to thepoint that raising the cost of fuel is an unwise method of reducing airpollution . It only solves the problem partially and it will lead to otherdisasters. To prevent air pollution, we should first find out the mainreasons leading to the pollution , andsecond , make joint and feasible efforts to overcome it.
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