People think that government should increase the cost of fuel for cars and other vehicles to solve environmental problems. Give your opinion.
It is widely believed that one solution to environmental problems would be for governments to
raise the price of petrol. While I consider that this might be an effective measure, I would argue
that other measures might have an even greater impact.
If national authorities raised taxes on petrol, this would address two environmental issues. Firstly,
in terms of private cars, motorists would limit the number and length of their journeys to
compensate for the extra expense. Governments would then be forced to upgrade and expand
public transport provision, as people would still need to travel to work, to school or to travel to
shops and hospitals, for example. Secondly, from the perspective of freight services, more
goods would have to be transported by rail rather than by truck. Both these measures would cut
down on emissions from vehicles and help to reduce the greenhouse effect.
On the other hand, while this rise in fuel prices might be a useful stopgap measure, governments
could adopt transport policies which would be more effective in the long term. The local
authorities in London, for instance, introduced a congestion charge on all vehicles visiting the
city center. They use the money raised to subsidize the cost of fares and to invest in transport
infrastructure. In turn, this has improved the air quality in the city, as a result of the reduction in
exhaust fumes. Another policy would be to introduce free bus and train passes, as the increased
use of public transport would reduce pollution from private cars and help in the effort to combat
global warming.
In conclusion, a sharp rise in petrol prices would be a useful environmentally-friendly transport
measure, although in the longer term other steps would be more effective.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 7.85571142285 229% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1506.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19310344828 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89536921675 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565517241379 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.50615244 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.846153846 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3076923077 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3076923077 7.06120827912 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 19.0 4.38176352705 434% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130140633102 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509198012774 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0390968268682 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0450716886706 0.151304729494 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444025874107 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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