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BC8237E7AC1E | 1,622,585,089,615 | 832 | 1,328 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 ... |
BC8237E7AC1E | 1,622,585,102,566 | 1,329 | 1,807 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 ... |
BC8237E7AC1E | 1,622,585,038,671 | 1,808 | 2,039 | 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. | Position | Position 1 | 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,263,386 | 0 | 64 | The limiting of car usage can be very useful in todays society. | Position | Position 1 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,276,020 | 64 | 178 | The emmissions of gas and diesel vehicles are at the top of the chart when it comes to pollution of the atmosphere | Claim | Claim 1 | 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,282,874 | 203 | 368 | 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. | Claim | Claim 2 | 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,288,754 | 369 | 498 | 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. | Claim | Claim 3 | 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,297,554 | 499 | 739 | 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. | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,334,752 | 740 | 926 | 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 | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,323,793 | 927 | 1,059 | They choose to walk, run, bike, skate, etc... This creates a healthier way of life for these citizens as well as saving the planet. | Claim | Claim 4 | 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 |
9BD314B82CC0 | 1,621,980,350,657 | 1,110 | 1,269 | 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. | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,702,960 | 0 | 140 | 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) | Lead | Lead 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 |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,564,275 | 141 | 244 | Many countries including France, Colombia, and Germany seem to have no problem with limited car usuage | Claim | Claim 1 | 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,597,372 | 247 | 530 | 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. | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,604,843 | 531 | 1,103 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 1... |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,613,117 | 1,104 | 1,607 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 ... |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,691,331 | 1,608 | 1,678 | What both countries are trying to do is limited cars so less polution. | Position | Position 1 | 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 |
F074E15D7250 | 1,622,561,728,742 | 1,679 | 1,740 | Their are other transportation besides cars that we can use. | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,648,622,012 | 0 | 472 | 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... | Lead | Lead 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 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,648,641,533 | 473 | 601 | 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 | Claim | Claim 1 | 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,649,018,429 | 602 | 1,179 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 ... |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,649,138,876 | 1,180 | 1,653 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,649,162,104 | 1,654 | 2,147 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,649,216,088 | 2,148 | 2,243 | Something as simple as limiting our time spent in our cars could benefit the world so greatly, | Position | Position 1 | 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,649,233,993 | 2,243 | 2,297 | especially with global warming taking a toll quicker. | Claim | Claim 2 | 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 |
C32E1C700BF7 | 1,622,649,258,217 | 2,298 | 2,827 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 4 | 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 ... |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,659,445 | 0 | 93 | Do you love drive? Well some poeple do and they just don't like to drive every day to work. | Lead | Lead 1 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,654,056 | 94 | 196 | first thing if people don't want drive they could just ride bike to work that help them with exerics. | Claim | Claim 1 | 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,674,170 | 196 | 927 | 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 ... | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 13... |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,697,120 | 960 | 1,053 | they should make sidewalk for people that want to walk to school,home,work,or freinds house. | Claim | Claim 2 | 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,718,072 | 1,053 | 1,503 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 ... |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,748,947 | 1,504 | 1,585 | I think people should stop drive becuase you really don't need to drive every day | Claim | Claim 3 | 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,761,016 | 1,586 | 1,828 | 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. | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,787,843 | 1,829 | 2,011 | 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. | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 |
939E66CC3A0C | 1,622,673,640,185 | 2,024 | 2,053 | the people should drive less. | Position | Position 1 | 406 407 408 409 410 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,002,260 | 0 | 60 | Limiting car usage can prevent accidents and deaths by cars | Claim | Claim 1 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,126,301 | 61 | 228 | 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 | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,019,255 | 229 | 333 | If people took their bike or walked to their destination it could help people lose weight and be healthy | Claim | Claim 2 | 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,039,802 | 336 | 646 | 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 | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,059,150 | 649 | 930 | 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.
| Evidence | Evidence 3 | 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,085,629 | 931 | 1,052 | 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 | Position | Position 1 | 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,093,867 | 1,053 | 1,383 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 4 | 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 |
ABFA503B7306 | 1,622,582,103,925 | 1,384 | 1,466 | There are the many reasons and what places are doing to reduces the usage of cars. | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,030,276 | 0 | 553 | "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... | Lead | Lead 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 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,048,852 | 554 | 591 | The advantages of limiting car usage | Position | Position 1 | 87 88 89 90 91 92 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,062,774 | 599 | 635 | fuel will no longer pollute the air, | Claim | Claim 1 | 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,095,052 | 636 | 686 | alternate transportation is available and cheaper, | Claim | Claim 2 | 101 102 103 104 105 106 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,105,229 | 690 | 735 | it would enforce goodwill and communionship. | Claim | Claim 3 | 108 109 110 111 112 113 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,155,305 | 934 | 1,572 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 ... |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,183,601 | 1,710 | 2,149 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,206,151 | 2,159 | 2,338 | 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. | Claim | Claim 4 | 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,262,744 | 2,338 | 3,124 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 ... |
22049B234D6C | 1,622,731,281,522 | 3,125 | 3,834 | 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... | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 ... |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,574,899,454 | 0 | 269 | 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". | Lead | Lead 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 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,574,932,778 | 269 | 297 | Overusage has proven harmful | Claim | Claim 1 | 44 45 46 47 |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,574,972,152 | 302 | 429 | limiting alternatives that reduce stress, are just as effective in getting us from point 'A' to 'B' and are more eco-friendly. | Claim | Claim 2 | 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,574,980,134 | 430 | 494 | Our excessive car usage is dramatically hurting our environment. | Claim | Claim 3 | 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,575,026,305 | 495 | 1,712 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 1... |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,575,101,877 | 1,851 | 2,843 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 ... |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,575,116,051 | 2,844 | 3,028 | 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. | Claim | Claim 4 | 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,575,146,912 | 3,029 | 4,342 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 ... |
36D35B8A7915 | 1,622,574,998,129 | 4,343 | 4,562 | 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!! | Position | Position 1 | 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,622,068,961,019 | 0 | 375 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 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 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,621,986,159,417 | 379 | 513 | 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
| Position | Position 1 | 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,621,986,201,531 | 514 | 870 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,621,986,193,913 | 901 | 996 | Carlos Arturo Plaza says "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" | Claim | Claim 1 | 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,621,986,232,314 | 997 | 1,065 | in Germany theres one suburb that carry on's with lives without cars | Claim | Claim 2 | 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,621,986,240,602 | 1,066 | 1,625 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 ... |
9B23715DFB32 | 1,622,069,015,921 | 1,636 | 1,910 | 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 | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,151,289 | 0 | 51 | By limiting car uses, many great advantages arise. | Position | Position 1 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,189,077 | 73 | 111 | reduction of smog and air pollution, | Claim | Claim 1 | 14 15 16 17 18 19 |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,196,493 | 111 | 127 | more money saved | Claim | Claim 2 | 20 21 22 |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,202,428 | 133 | 156 | a healthier lifestyle. | Claim | Claim 3 | 24 25 26 |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,263,059 | 157 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 1... |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,284,584 | 990 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 ... |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,291,285 | 1,837 | 2,343 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 ... |
FA4E66C7BC61 | 1,622,751,298,580 | 2,344 | 2,573 | 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. | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,707,833 | 0 | 327 | 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... | Lead | Lead 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 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,697,677 | 327 | 415 | . Reducing car usage by building public transportation and smart suburbs would be ideal. | Position | Position 1 | 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,717,606 | 426 | 454 | cut down our co2 emissions | Claim | Claim 1 | 75 76 77 78 79 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,727,221 | 461 | 515 | reduce the number of car related injuries and deaths.
| Claim | Claim 2 | 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,750,866 | 522 | 1,197 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 ... |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,782,780 | 1,208 | 1,429 | 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. | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,827,353 | 1,430 | 1,634 | 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) | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,819,797 | 1,635 | 1,724 | Cutting these emissions, even by a fraction would have great benefits to our environment | Claim | Claim 3 | 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,834,881 | 1,725 | 2,166 | 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 ... | Evidence | Evidence 4 | 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 |
8836AD393A34 | 1,622,666,842,981 | 2,179 | 2,586 | 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... | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,179,656 | 0 | 77 | The advantages of limiting car usage is starting to become a lot more common | Position | Position 1 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,170,354 | 78 | 154 | People are starting to realize that their happier when not riding their car | Claim | Claim 1 | 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,198,412 | 155 | 364 | 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. | Evidence | Evidence 1 | 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,349,531 | 365 | 874 | 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... | Evidence | Evidence 2 | 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 1... |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,434,035 | 875 | 1,190 | 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 | Evidence | Evidence 3 | 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,262,852 | 1,191 | 1,278 | Not only does not riding your car lower pollution but it can also help lower emissions | Claim | Claim 2 | 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,271,247 | 1,279 | 1,297 | conserve resources | Claim | Claim 3 | 236 237 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,279,661 | 1,303 | 1,319 | improve safety. | Claim | Claim 4 | 239 240 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,402,703 | 1,319 | 1,468 | 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. | Evidence | Evidence 4 | 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 |
8C2847B29032 | 1,622,337,289,720 | 1,469 | 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... | Concluding Statement | Concluding Statement 1 | 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 |
6ED31611B5C4 | 1,622,578,418,802 | 0 | 180 | 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) | Lead | Lead 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 |
6ED31611B5C4 | 1,622,578,427,117 | 180 | 298 | There are many advantages to having cars, but there are also many more advantages to not using cars wherever people go | Position | Position 1 | 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 |
6ED31611B5C4 | 1,622,578,434,398 | 299 | 343 | Some advatages include conserving resources | Claim | Claim 1 | 50 51 52 53 54 |
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