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In Vauban, Germany, many people have given up their cars. Having a  car is allowed, but there are only two places to park, in a large garage, or a spot that cost $40,000 along with the home they buy. Vauban's streets are completely car-free other than the downtown area where the tram runs. 70 percent of Vauban families...
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As mentioned, about fifty percent of the greenhouse gases in America are from cars. Only about 12 percent in Europe. France is one of the most polluted countries in Europe because of it's tax on gasoline, that is not on diesel fuel. Diesels make up 67 percent of France compared to the 53.3 percent average of the rest o...
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The use of personal transportation should decrease because of how it's effecting out planet. The air is getting worse for us and we can control that! If we start driving less, or taking public transportation we can cut back a lot.
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The limiting of car usage can be very useful in todays society.
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The emmissions of gas and diesel vehicles are at the top of the chart when it comes to pollution of the atmosphere
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it could cause a lot of people to become a little more healthier if we walked, ran or biked somewhere in stead of taking a five minute drive to the convient store.
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In many major cities of the world, air pollutants have became a danger to the health of not only our lungs but also to the earth.
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The gasses that are emitted build up in our atmosphere making a thick barrier that traps other gasses inside that are intended to be set free. Paris, France had one-hundred and fourty-seven micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter.
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A lot of citizens of these large cities are combating the pollution problem by putting bans on cars and car usage. But most are cutting back due to there not being a ban where they live
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They choose to walk, run, bike, skate, etc... This creates a healthier way of life for these citizens as well as saving the planet.
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So as proved in these articles, there are so many postive things that can come from the restriction of automobiles. Including The preservation of Earth itself.
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Many people may argue about the advantages of limited car usage. "When i had a car, i was always tense, im much happier this way" (Source 1)
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Many countries including France, Colombia, and Germany seem to have no problem with limited car usuage
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Germany is one of the greatest countries that is against low car life. 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars. 57 percent sold a car to move Germany. (Source 1). In total their is approximatly 5,500 residents and has a low car life because their are less space for parking.
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One of the most populated city in France is Paris. Paris enforced a driving ban to clear up the polution. A 22-euro fine was given if one failed to corespond with the rules. Around 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine . After 5 days of almost car free roads (not...
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For 3 straight years, Bogota has been doing "Day Without Cars" that limites transportation only allowing buses and taxis. the goal for this day is to reduce smog in the capital city. Violators who failed to corespond was faced with a $25 fines. " Millons of colombians hiked,biked,skated, or took the buses to work durin...
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What both countries are trying to do is limited cars so less polution.
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Their are other transportation besides cars that we can use.
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Getting from point A to point B seems like such a big issue when youre in your teens, having to rely on everything else to get where you need to go. Some of us don't know how beneficial it is to not even have a car to worry about. Millions of Americans get in their car each morning to go to school, work, or to the stor...
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Just owning a vehicle, not even driving it, puts a big dent in your monthly pay check with the insurance and paying off the car
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Then add all of the gas money, repairs, and possible tickets, you got yourself a load of cash that you could be saving or spending on something else. Just imagine a life where you have deleted your personal transportation for a week. In source one like Heidrum Walter noticed, "When i had a car i was always tense. im mu...
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Multiple cities around the world are having days throughout the year to give up personal transportation, and some places banning it all together. As source three stated, in Bogota, Columbia, "It was the third staight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital...
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Studies have shown that Americans are buying and recieving less cars and liscense each year. With unemployment at a high rate and many families still in and recovering from poverty, it's too much money and stress for a lot of people. From source four, "If the pattter persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it wi...
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Something as simple as limiting our time spent in our cars could benefit the world so greatly,
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especially with global warming taking a toll quicker.
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It may seem difficult at first but it is defiantly duable and effecient to put away vehicles all together, or atleast more often. Cell phones and all the new apps make it easier to communicate with friends, enabling car pooling and to maximize the fuel spent to speak to others. Gathered from source one, "Passenger cars...
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Do you love  drive? Well some poeple do and they just don't like to drive every day to work.
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first thing if people don't want drive they could just ride bike to work that help them with exerics.
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Also they don't know that the gas is ever high and they can't affored it and that why they walk or ride the bike. Another reason is that 27 people had there can impounded or on side of the road becuase  they ran out of gas. when you drive and you see your gas meter and it on the E and your car just stop and you about ...
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they should make sidewalk for people that want to walk to school,home,work,or freinds house.
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Well if they family want to go on a trip to see there grandma then they can take there car and go see her. And what ever car you got please look for the limit becuase some car drink gas and then you have to fill it back up again. If it was just less driveing they approach stores,and other thing that they can walk to. I...
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I think people should stop drive becuase you really don't need to drive every day
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about 4,000 people don't have there license and the drive. if you drive and it cold you should trun a on the heat to low becuase heat will messup your emission. and that why i should think that people should walk stead of drive all the time.
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We all the people should just say that Monday,Tuesday,Wensday we all should drive to school,work or where ever and Thursday,Friday,Saturday they should walk to work or take the bus.
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the people should drive less.
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Limiting car usage can prevent accidents and deaths by cars
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Experts say passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent ofgreenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas like the United States
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If people took their bike or walked to their destination it could help people lose weight and be healthy
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Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifiying smog. Beijing, China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London, Reuters found
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Car-free day became a big hit in Bogota, Colombia. The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. It has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin america city, according to Mockus, the city's mayor.
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Cars should be cut down in use in many other country's espically in places like the U.S where cars are used all the time
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Experts say America's love affair with vechicles seems to be cooling. Miles driven in the U.S peaked in 2005 and has been dropping since according to Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in Janu...
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There are the many reasons and what places are doing to reduces the usage of cars.
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"All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change" (Rosenthal source 1) said Transportation of America official David Goldberg in Elisabeth Rosenthal's article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars." With air pollution, smog, and greenhouse gas emissions rising...
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The advantages of limiting car usage
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fuel will no longer pollute the air,
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alternate transportation is available and cheaper,
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it would enforce goodwill and communionship.
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With President Obama's issue to decrease the amount of air pollution caused by cars, many have realized that car usage is not as common as it used to be. If the number of cars on the road continues to deplete- "and many sociologists believe it will-it will have benificial implications for carbon emissions and the envir...
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By using alternate means of transportation such as buses, trains, and car pooling services you are saving gas money and supporting community business'. There is a rise in car pooling that has "facilitated more flexable commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared van services for getting to work" (Rosenth...
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a benifit of limiting our car usage can be found in the better communionship that will result as cities will make their stores closer together and communities more closley knit.
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In Bogota, Colombia people are practicing "car-free days" and relying solely on public transportation. As this happens author of article "Care-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," Andrew Selsy, says "parks and sports centers [are] bloom[ing] throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by...
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The advantages of limiting car usage include fuel will no longer pollute the air, alternate transportation is available and cheaper, and it would enforce goodwill and communionship. With greenhouse gasses rapidly circulating and polluting the globe it would be acceptional to decrease this by not driving as often. Furth...
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Here, in the United States, birthplace of the Model T,driving has proven to be part of our history and culture.  However, with recently uncovered developments in our environment such as global warming and pollution, it is time for us to re-evaluate our "car culture". 
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Overusage has proven harmful
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limiting alternatives that reduce stress, are just as effective in getting us from point 'A' to 'B' and are more eco-friendly.
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Our excessive car usage is dramatically hurting our environment.
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In fact, "...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).  What people use for our short term convenience is actually proving inconvenient for us in the long run.  In Paris, there was "147 micrograms o...
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In the city of Vauban in Germany, residents have " given up their cars"(1).  Here although car ownership is allowed, "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move [there]." (3).  Do the residents regret their decision?  According to Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two...
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For those who do decide to make a move to help the environment and themselves by reducing their car usage, their are more and more alternatives that are making their switch worthwhile.
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In Vauban, you can hear the sounds of viable alternatives in use.  The "swish of bicycles" and the "chatter"(3) of walking children is audible in the streets.  Carlos Arturo Plaza rides the car-free streets of Bogota on " atwo seat bicycle with his wife"(24).  For those who don't feel comfortable with walking or cycli...
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Essentially, the sacrifice of some of our car usage is far outweighed by the positive affects on our environment and attitudes.  Plus new systems that cater to better alternative uses make the switch easier than ever!! 
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if we look back at time in the united states young people were thrilled to be able to drive. but in more recent years studies show that the young in the united states dont really have the same thrill anymore actually there really not interested at all they find alternative ways to get to were there going like public tr...
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really its not a bad idea at all if we can get others in the US to limiting the use if there cars it could do the world a lotta good
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If you take a look at Colombia for instience they have a day where in bogota 7 million people are banned using there cars for a day they find alternatives to get around like biking hiking walking busses and taxi cabs doing this is a good way to stop air polluion and also to promote alternatives transportation and if pe...
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9B23715DFB32
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Carlos Arturo Plaza says "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution"
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9B23715DFB32
1,621,986,232,314
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in Germany theres one suburb that carry on's with lives without cars
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9B23715DFB32
1,621,986,240,602
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street parking driveways and home garages are grenrally forbidden Vaubans streets are completly car free except the main thoroughfare where theres a tram that takes them downtown in this expermintal upscale town on the outskirts of freiburg car ownership is actually allowed but theres only 2 places to park there are la...
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9B23715DFB32
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i think if we could all take a page from everybodys book i truely think we could spread awareness and maybe cut down or even get rid of most of the air polution not just in the united states or columbia or in germany...but get rid of air pollution in the whole intire world
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FA4E66C7BC61
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By limiting car uses, many great advantages arise.
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reduction of smog and air pollution,
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FA4E66C7BC61
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127
more money saved
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FA4E66C7BC61
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a healthier lifestyle.
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FA4E66C7BC61
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989
Places such as Paris and Bogota, Columbia have noticed the unhealthy amount of smog in the air so they decided to do something about it and the result was exactly what they were hoping for. In Paris, days went by with near record pullution levels which made them decide to do a partial driving ban to reduce the smog. Th...
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FA4E66C7BC61
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1,836
In America, it seems that we are finally starting to cool our love affair with our vehicles. People are realizing how expensive it is to be a car owner. Source 4 shows how much the number of miles driven per person has decreased by nearly 9 percent which is equal to to where the country was in January of 1995. This rea...
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FA4E66C7BC61
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Because of Bogota's Day Without Cars, millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, or took busses to work during this time. During this day when the transportation is not just sitting lazy in a car, the city's parks and sports centers seemed to have become the new hot spot. People spent the whole day exercising and get...
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FA4E66C7BC61
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By limiting car usage, there are many advantages. Advantages such as reduction of smog and air pollution, more money saved, and a healthier lifestyle make it almost impossible to not want to join the bandwagon of reduced car use.
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8836AD393A34
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Around the world we have been seeing trends of reducing automobile usage. Reducing automile usage would have a number of advantages but it must be approached in the right way. If the US were to attempt to "limit car usage" as the prompt states, the movement would undoubtedly recieve a lot of push back and would slow to...
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. Reducing car usage by building public transportation and smart suburbs would be ideal.
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cut down our co2 emissions
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reduce the number of car related injuries and deaths.
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8836AD393A34
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if there is one thing I know about American politics, its that political parties will oppose just about anything, no matter how advantageous or logical, "limiting car usage" is no exception, if the Democratic party were to suggest such a thing, it would create an upoar from the Republican and Libertarian parties. This...
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8836AD393A34
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there is a right way to approach this issue in the US. If we were to ask for grants to build public transportation systems, encourage car-pooling, and build efficient bike paths, car usage could be significantly reduced.
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8836AD393A34
1,622,666,827,353
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The advantages of reducing our use of automobiles in the US are well worth the cost.  Transportation is the second largest contributor of co2 emissions, just behind power plants. (Rosenthal, paragraph 34)
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8836AD393A34
1,622,666,819,797
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Cutting these emissions, even by a fraction would have great benefits to our environment
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8836AD393A34
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David Goldburg, an official of Transportation for America states, "All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change, how much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid." (7) The US has been moving towards a lower car use trend since the recession, "recent ...
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8836AD393A34
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reducing automoblie use in the US should be a goal, but it cannot be approached through laws or restrictions. We can model our suburbs and cities to be more friendly to alternate transportations, and we can build public transportation systems across America. The reduction of co2 emissions from cars will curb our contr...
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The advantages of limiting car usage is starting to become a lot more common
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People are starting to realize that their happier when not riding their car
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in fact Heudrun Walter mother of 2 said "when i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Walter now can walk the streets and enjoy the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children.
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8C2847B29032
1,622,337,349,531
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Us humans rely to much on our cars for transportation, We should learn how to get to places on our own. Before we had cars we walked on our own 2 feet and didnt complain, its time for us to get back part of our humanity. "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to chan...
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8C2847B29032
1,622,337,434,035
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In Bogota, Colombia a program was set to have a car free day. The only way of transportation was through buses and taxis, and violators would have to pay a $25 fine. "It was a good opportunity to take away stress and lower pollution" said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife
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8C2847B29032
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Not only does not riding your car lower pollution but it can also help lower emissions
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conserve resources
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improve safety.
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The goal is to limit car usage and to start noticing the advantages of a car free life, like walking the streets and enjoying another beautiful day.
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8C2847B29032
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1,850
Fellow citizens I advice you to put down you car keys and go outside to smell the clean air, see the sun shining on your face and get a breeze of how life would be from outside the windows of your car. We can help make our environment be a better place all you have to do is start taking action and realize their are mor...
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Many people in the world today think that cars and driving everywhere is a necessity; however, many people feel that owning a car is "impractical (and) undesirabe." (paragraph 43)
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There are many advantages to having cars, but there are also many more advantages to not using cars wherever people go
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Some advatages include conserving resources
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