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?
In recent times, experts both from under developed and developed societies, have argued that the appropriate method of solving the increasing traffic and pollution challenges facing the world is by hiking the cost of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). In my opinion, I vehemently disagree with this line of thought, and further propose cleaner and greener measures to solving this growing concern.
To begin with, road transportation, among other means such as air and water transportation, is the easiest, cheapest and most flexible available way of conveying goods. Therefore, no matter the hike in petrol price, people will continue to pay the premium for such product and services. This implies that, an increase in petrol price will not yield the desired result of reduced traffic and pollution. For instance, the Nigerian government has increased the cost of petrol on several occasions, but this has not reduced vehicular traffic experienced in Lagos metropolis. Furthermore, nearly 100% of vehicles and generators use petrol and diesel, by-products of crude oil as their energy source. Admittedly, increasing the cost of these commodities will majorly increase the cost of production, rather than controlling pollution.
There are novel and cleaner measures which can be adopted in a bid to resolve the growing challenge of pollution and traffic. One solution is by exploring greener sources of energy for vehicle such as electric cars, which are powered by electric energy. These vehicles do not emit greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide which are responsible for ozone layer depletion and ultimately, global warming. An empirical survey by The Times magazine indicated that global warming index dropped significantly by 60% when 5% of fossil fuel cars were replaced by electric cars. Secondly, government and private sector intervention in alternative means of transportation, such as rail and water transportation will considerably reduce road traffic. In addition, pollution will also experience a decline, because trains and boats consume less energy and simultaneously, there will be fewer cars on the road. An example is Lagos state, where traffic reduced by 70% with the introduction of the Epe and Lagos Island sea port.
To recapitulate, I totally disagree that petrol price increase will solve the problem of traffic and pollution. These setbacks can be appropriately tackled by government and private sector partnership in exploring other means of transportation as well as investing in electric cars.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, for instance, in addition, such as, as well as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 8.3376753507 264% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2155.0 1615.20841683 133% => OK
No of words: 393.0 315.596192385 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4834605598 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9608044526 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557251908397 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 666.9 506.74238477 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.2954569528 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.764705882 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1176470588 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.41176470588 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18922239001 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06309695842 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585438255552 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124653592146 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339529616943 0.056905535591 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.6 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 78.4519038076 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.