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They come in red, blue, green, black, and white. They beep and honk while they ride on highways and transport people form place to place. Cars are everywear. What would the world be like if we didnt have cars? What are the benefits of life without cars?
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Life with out cars benefits the environment, and peoples' health.
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the elimination of cars helps the environment.
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"Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (5). In other words, cars are higly responsible for the harmful gases that pollute our atmosphere and cause global warming. In Paris,  a partial driving ban was i...
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it will benefit the health of citizens both mentally and physically.
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In the German suburb of  Vauban, citizens have given up their cars. A resident there says "when i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (3). Limiting car use also limits the frequency of trafic jams, accidents, and unfriendly drivers in a hurry along with the stress and frustration that accompany the...
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a life without cars means a healthy, long-lasting planet along with a happy, relaxed, and healthy population. Even though cars are conveint, they have many negative side effects. Next time you want to go for a ride, think of all the benefits of limiting them. Rember what a breath of fresh air feels like because the ga...
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Limited car use has dramatically reduced the amount of enviromental toxins in the air in some cities.
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Paris, France and Bogota, Colombia have banned car use for a day and have seen the air clean up just because very few cars were being driven. One community in Germany even banned the use of cars in general. The enviroment is in dire need of help and we can help it. If everyone took one day out of the week where we did ...
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Not driving also has added health benefits, walking or biking everywhere is a good way to excersise.
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A new kind of suburb has been created in Germany where cars are not allowed. There are a few roads on the perimeter of the city that allow cars to be driven but besides that residents walk or bike everywhere. There is little pollution in the air and residents are able to take a tram into neighboring cities. Seventy per...
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One resident, Heidrum Walter, said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier that way."
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Lack of cars also gives parents peace of mind, cars are still dangerous machines and in this community their kids can play without their parents worrying about them getting involved in an accident.
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Paris' pollution rates have been rising over the years and hit almost record level highs for a few days, so in order to reduce the amount of smog in the air there was a temporary car ban. One day anyone who has a even-number license plate was not allowed to drive. If you were caught driving you had to pay a fine that i...
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When you choose to walk or bike everywhere it not only makes an impact on the enviroment but it also reduces your risks for dieseases like obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
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Obesity rates in America are a lot higher than they should be and that's partially due to lack of physical activity. By walking or biking to work or to school you reduce that risk because your heart rate is up and your body is moving. Of course if people stop driving obesity will still exist due to our horrible eating ...
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If people in America reduced their driving time it would be better for the air and better for us.
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Many other cities have proposed an annual day without cars so I think cities in America should start doing it. We only have one world and although we have done a pretty horrible job of taking care of it, that does not mean we can't attempt to fix the mess we made.
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Driving a car has its ups and downs to life. It provides transportation, but it can also be very dangerous.
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Another issue with cars today is the amount of pollution that cars give off.
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Smog is caused by cars and is not good to the environment and certainly not good for people to be breathing in. Both "Paris bans driving due to smog" and "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" discuss the affects cars can have on the evironment.
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"In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" and "The End of Car Culture" talk about the decrease of the amount of cars used today. Many communities today are turning into car-free places to clear up the smog and dangers of driving.
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Smog in Paris, France and Bogota, Columbia have reached record pollutions and both cities do not want to deal with it any longer. Robert Duffer writes about how the Paris government enforced a new rule which allowed both even and odd numbered license plates to drive on a certain day and would alternate everyday. This w...
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Life without cars can also be beneficial to ones community
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few people will be buying gas or diesel fuel for their cars. Elisabeth Rosenthal tells her audience that Vauban, Germany has an upscale community where nearly everyone has given up their cars. Here, people sold their cars just so that they could buy a house in peace without having to hear traffic jams and honking horns...
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Many are giving up their cars today to make a better, happier living.
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There are cities all across the world that are limiting the amount of cars being used. Smog is a very pollutive that many don't even realize. Many say that walking and biking around provides them with a more peaceful lifestyle. Limiting car usage will provide less smog in the air and will save you money from having to ...
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Now a days cars and other veicles are the cause of many situations that many places in the world have to deal with. Indeed they do get us to our destination faster, but at what cost? We drive faster so that the earth can die slowly.
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Cars and veicles are to be blamned for earths killer POLUTION.
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There are some up and downs to faster transportation for example, time  management we get tomplaces in one-third of the time we would if we would go walking to our destination. We wouldn't be freezing when it's called and sweating when it's hot.
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The down information is that the government waste a lot of money on gas, and car prices, even on fast food resturants
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The truth is we dont even need cars
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For example in the story In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, studies show that 70% of Vauban's families do not own any type of veicles, and 57% sold their veicle just to move there. "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and a mother of two.
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Polution...... It kills the earth and infact us aswell very slowly. Each year the government has to waste thousands of dollars to keep producing greenhouses because the use of any type of veicle is monumentous. If we keep doing what we doing there won't be an earth to live on at all. Cars aren't the only thing to blame...
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If we spend all day driving, we let out into the atmosphere some toxic fuems that kills the earth and us aswell. Then making the government waste money to make greenhouses to try to at least advance humans lives for a couple more hundreds of years. Up to 50% of car-intensive ares in America, are to blame for the develo...
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Limiting car usage can be very helpful not only to our environment, but to our culture.
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Our ozone is slowly getting worse and worse every year.
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A heavy contributor to the decay of the ozone layer is the greenhouse gasses, like the ones we emit from our cars on a daily basis. A society without cars could create a safer, more time friendly, and environmentally healthy community.
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Think of all the tragedies that have spawned from car crashes.
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Just this year in our local community, a 16 year old boy was knocked off our local bridge and killed by a drunk driver. Our city is still recovering from this, not a day goes by where I don't see a new person leaving flowers in his spot on the bridge. In a society without cars, this would never have to happen again, th...
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Think about how much time you spend in a car on the average day. At least 30 minutes to an hour if you go to school, a job, or a sport
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If we didnt have to drive everywhere, everything we needed would be compacted into walking distance
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Life without cars could be the change that our country needs. Improved environmental conditions, safety improving drastically, and your precious time being saved. Maybe life without cars wouldn't be as great as we're making it out to be, but how are we ever going to know if we don't try. This change would be for the be...
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There are many advantages to limiting car usage.
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Theres less green house gasses emmited.
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It's less money you have to spend on youre car.
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You dont have to deal with the dangers of drivning on the road.
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When you dont drive your car as much or not at all and you get others too that makes less carbon gass going into the air. Emmitung less carbon into the air helps the enviorment stay clean and healthy. when you dont emit as much gas you help lessen the impact on global warming.
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Driving less can also help your walet too. when your not driving as much you dont have to pay for as muh gas, or none at all if you dont drive any. theres also no need to pay for mantinense or broken or damaged parts if any do break.
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If your not on the road then there are no dangers of driving on the road to worry about. Theres no need to worry about someone hitting you or you hitting someone. When not driving someone who is intoxicated or texting and driving cannot affect you.  
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Car emissions are very deadly and dangerous. They can be lethal to humans, and also dangerous to the enviroment. It can lead to big enviromental issues like global warming, holes in the ozone, and air pollution. Many ignore the fact or are oblivious to it, but driving hurts our enviroment just for a little bit of convi...
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Cars have a convienent way of getting us to our destination faster
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but at the cost of our precious enviroment.
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We use our cars sometimes without thinking twice of what the actual after effect is. Paris is a city that has had almost, if not the worst, smog levels in all of europe. It has 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter due to the majority of cars which have diesel powered engines. Air pollution doen't jsut e...
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It hurts us by causing major damage to our lungs and respitory system.
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Greenhouse gases are another major thing in car emissions.
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Greenhouse gases are gases that keep or trap heat on earth to keep us from going into another ice age. A decent amount is good and is used to do its job, but when you have too much then the globe starts to increase in temperature. Antarctica, as you know, is made of ice. when ice gets to a certain temperature it starts...
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Cars are a very important and convienent way of travel but can be very deadly to us humans and tne earth we live on. Because we use them everyday doesn't mean that we can not cut down or change our ways of transpertation. Cars give off many harmful toxins and gases that we can, but refuse to control
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we can cut down on the majority of the waste by limiting our car trips distance wise and based on how many times you leave the driveway.
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a simple change as in riding a bike or walking or even only going out when needed can slow down the speed of global warming and even drop the levels of air pollution. A little change can maybe just save the earth from another flood that can wipe out humainity.
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Owning a vehicle or lisence is not what it used to be.
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people all across the globe have given up driving for the many benefits that come along with alternative methods of transportation.
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These methods can reduce pollution,
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be cost effective
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even improve people's well being and happiness.
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there is a surprising amount of options if you don't want to drive a car.
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Public transportation such as trains and buses exist in most major cities, especially in America and Europe. San Francisco is a busy city with many young residents, and many of these residents are not interested in getting their liscenses. ". . . They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can wal...
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alternative transportation methods are not the only reason to give up your car. By not driving a car, air pollution can be decreased drastically
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9869D38D9EDB
1,623,332,458,893
1,461
1,844
. In Paris, France's largest city and international destination, driving was temporarily illegal because of heavy smog in the city. ". . . Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." It did not take very long for traffic and smog to clear up once the ban was put in pl...
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Evidence 2
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9869D38D9EDB
1,623,332,466,514
1,845
1,896
People are also happier when they do not drive cars
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Claim 6
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9869D38D9EDB
1,623,332,472,472
1,900
1,989
"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," sais Heidrun Walter.'
Evidence
Evidence 3
327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343
EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,757,392
0
1,097
Going place to place in a car is surely the fastest way possible, compared to taking a crowded bus or train. Having your own car is very wonderful, you get to have the space to yourself no noisy people around you, you can turn the music all the way up if you wanted to. Yes, all that's great for you but, have you though...
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,680,195
1,098
2,057
Due to the high smog levels in Paris they had to put a ban on using cars, and if someone were to use their cars they would be charged a 22-euro fine which is $31 USD. This ban was later lifted to odd-numbered plates when the smog cleared enough. Pairs wasn't the only one to ban cars. As quoted from source 1 "VAUBAN, Ge...
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,674,301
2,058
2,369
Now, you don't have to go to the extremes of giving up your car completly but limiting the amount of times you use your car would be a fantastic start and if everyone around the world limits the amount of time they use their car by half, even by a quarter, the air around us would be much more clean and happy.
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,714,174
2,370
3,188
Alternatives other than using your car can be going on a train or bus, and yes I know I said that they can be a little unappealing, but I rather suffer a couple of minutes on a bus or train than having the long term effects of a polluted environment. Don't like the idea of going on public transportation? How about car ...
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Evidence 2
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,724,619
3,189
3,272
Cutting down car usage can also mean you get to go out for more walks than usual!
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Claim 2
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,731,731
3,272
4,459
Walking is very important for your health but also for the environment, since of course, walking doesn't cause pollution. As stated in source 3 "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramaticall...
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Evidence 3
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,768,263
4,460
4,842
"But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter." quoted from source 4. This is an amazing start for us in the US, we are slowly growing away from cars, or well, we seem ...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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EFB92CEDD7D6
1,622,585,746,062
4,843
5,005
We still have a long way to go, but, I strongly believe that going without cars or using cars less is a real benefit to our society, and to us as individuals.
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F04B3042188A
1,623,269,867,672
0
87
Do you really want your children living in a world covered in smog and crouded streets?
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Lead 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
F04B3042188A
1,623,269,873,265
88
208
It is shown that all of our development sense World War II has been centered on the car and this really needs to chang.
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F04B3042188A
1,623,269,880,907
209
322
First off studies show that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe..
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Claim 1
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F04B3042188A
1,623,269,888,795
323
946
And those number are 4 times higher in America, the land that you are raising your children in has the highest amount of greenhouse gases on the planet right now. If we could just do what the people in Paris did we can easily fight this smog epidemc. In Paris the put a law out were people with even-numbered license pla...
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F04B3042188A
1,623,269,960,149
947
1,967
Also in Colombia they have a program that is some what like paris whish is having a huge turnout. Many people are saying that the car free day "is a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution". The funny part is that this event is spreading troughout the neighboring countries. This day without cars is part of...
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Evidence 2
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F04B3042188A
1,623,269,972,707
1,968
2,239
Now that you know the risks about this rising epidemic known as smog how do you feel about the way the world is looking? And how esay it would be to just fix what we have be doing such a thing as walking. But truley is this a world you want to raise your children in?
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,002,210
0
250
Using a motor vehicle as a source of transportation is part of everyday life and is not rare to the stereotypical American. But cities such as Paris, Bogota, and Vauban are all striving towards reducing the rate of motor vehicle usage in their areas.
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Lead 1
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,047,568
251
315
Advantages of limiting car usage are lower greenhouse gas rates
Claim
Claim 1
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,060,393
316
391
suburbs can become more compact and more accesible to public transportation
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Claim 2
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,067,536
396
443
people are able to live less stressful lives.
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Claim 3
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,109,344
444
1,423
Transportation is the second largest source of America's emmisions and is responsible for fifty percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States but is slowly making a change towards helping the enviornment and being beneficial towards carbon emissions. In 2005, the number of miles driven in the United States w...
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,145,220
1,424
2,284
Vauban, an upscale community in Germany, is home to suburban pioneers who have given up their cars. Seventy percent of Vauban's family do not own cars and fifty-seven percent sold a car to move there. "Smart planning" is a component of the movement to seperate suburban life from auto use to create a denser and more com...
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Evidence 2
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,185,515
2,285
2,898
Dropping off your kid at daycare, then driving to work, then having to drive your child to soccer practice can be a constant and stressful cycle for most parents. Residents of suburbs that have low car usage rates claim that they are less stressful. In a suburban community with little to no motor vehicle usage, the sub...
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Evidence 3
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D3D2660F2D77
1,622,640,036,633
2,899
3,044
Cars can be useful in many ways but for the better of the enviorment, peoples cities, and sanity, little to no car use is the way to go.  
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Position 1
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80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,089,474
0
209
An industrial world without cars may seem to be ages away, but according to the studies conducted in the passages, the reduction of car use is very positive culturally, environmentally, and even economically.
Position
Position 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,103,422
210
273
One advantage of a society without cars is a relief of stress.
Claim
Claim 1
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80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,146,373
273
509
The residents of Vauban, Germany, a car-free suburban town, are much happier there. They don't have to deal with the pollution of gas emission or noise pollution from traffic; they simply hear bicycles swishing by and children playing.
Evidence
Evidence 1
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80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,265,447
510
999
Car free towns have been an intriguing idea for years now; even major organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation for America are willing to pursue car-free cities for many reasons. The major motivation for getting rid of cars is pollution. In Europe, 12% of gas emissions come from cars, a...
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Evidence 2
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80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,247,436
1,000
1,077
That's a massive amount of pollution- an amount that can be greatly reduced.
Claim
Claim 2
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80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,335,942
1,078
1,583
Some countries are slowly getting on board with the whole "car-free" idea. In Bogota, there's a car free day where everyone takes alternative forms of transportation to get around, be it buses, bikes, or skateboards, which makes a huge difference in such a heavily populated metropolis. The citizens really enjoy this da...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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80E78F9EB937
1,622,812,424,986
1,584
2,049
If a car free society is ideal, how come we don't have it yet? Currently, we still depend greatly on cars; giving them up wholly is a very radical change. However, governments are working into it slowly. On top of car-free towns like Vauban and car-free holidays like in Bogota, car-free cities are being planned. These ...
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Evidence 4
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