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In Bogota, Colombia there is a car free day every year, where Colombians, hiked, biked, skated or took buses to get around. It was the third year of the event and the goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog and pollution. The turnout was very large, despite gray clouds that dumped occational rain ...
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So is driving really worth destroying the enviroment? Maybe you could try walking to work sometime, or riding a bike. These cities tried it so should yours.
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There are many advantages of limiting car usage
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Decreasing the amount of time citizens use personal motorvehicles positively impacts the environment and the state of mind of people. The lack of driving personal cars is becoming more widely accepted in several countries for different reasons. Vauban, a suburb in Germany, is an experimental district testing the lifes...
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The decrease in fumes from cars is very beneficial to the environment.
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People and organizations are making drastic efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. According to paragraph five of "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars," twelve percent of greehouse gas in Europe is caused by passenger cars and fifty percent in some areas of the United States. The Environment...
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a decrease in personal motor vehicles causes people to have a better state of mind.
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Heidrun Walter states, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." With a car comes a lot of responsibility which leads to a lot of stress on a person. Not having a car is one less bill to pay and thing to take care of which for many people is a better way of living."It's a good oppurtunity to tak...
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limiting car usage is a "win-win" situation for everyone. Decreasing fumes and the stress of a car causes the environment and people to be happier. Promoting public trasportation or other ways of getting places is better for everyone. It is a growing trend all over the world, and for a good reason. A lack of fumes fro...
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the advantages of limiting car usage are very rare
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some people own cars some dont some take bus but some work so they can own there own car. there has been a large drop in the percentage 16-to 39 year olds getting there license and other people who already have there license are renewing them, kids get jobs so that when there more older there able to get there own car ...
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car ownership is allowed but there are only two places to park large garages at the edge of the development where a car owner buys a spance for the amount of 40,000 with the home
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passenger cars are respinsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent in some car intensive ares in the united states in the new approach stores are placed a walk way on a main street rather than in malls along some distant high way. almost 4,000 drivers wee fined. 53.3 percent avera...
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In the modern world, we are almost completely dependent on our technology to get us through the day.  These human creations, such as, cellular phones, the internet, computers, and cars make it easier for us to perform everyday tasks.  But for such heavy use of these items, there are side effects.
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Cars in particular can, and will, create lasting issues in our environment, which if not resolved will cause many problems in our future.
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if the First World states like the UK, France, Germany, and the U.S. were to cut down on car usage, we would see a drastic decline in not only the air polluting greenhouse gases
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expenses for families spending all their money at a gas pump.
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we would see an increase in other things, such as the amount of exercise and public people would acquire through alternative transportation.
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The foremost issue is of course, the environmental effects of cars. 
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According to the New York times, cars are on average responsible for "12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas".  These emissions can often make cities uninhabitable.  In places such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and other urban centers; heavy pollution requires ...
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But in our modern world many people would be completely lost without a car, it has become the staple of our infastructure, not unlike the horse from years past.
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But there is evidence in the small town of Vauban, Germany; that life without cars is a very possible thing. 
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The small community of Vauban has forbidden cars within their town, and the results are suprisingly positive.  Of the residents of Vauban, seventy percent do not own cars, and are very happy with their circumstances.  As Heidrun Walter said to the New York Times, "When I had a car I was always tense.  I'm much happier...
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Not only does the restriction of cars help the environment, it can also help the economy.
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The average American citizen's budget consists mainly of two things, housing, and vehicles.  But during the recession of 2008, there was a decline of about nine percent in average miles driven.  The burden of gas prices and car payments became too much for many unemployed Americans.  But after the recession passed, the...
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Finally, the world we live in today is changing, and with always increasing technology, it may not be long before a clean alternative to gas burning vehicles arises.  But you cannot count on the unknown; and what is known is that should we continue on our current path, the world will be a very hot place by 2040.  Eithe...
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As a teen you wanted to drive.  You wanted that freedom to go anywhere on your own.  When we are young we dont relize the damage driving a car does to our world.
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  It effects green house gasses, and C02 levels. 
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it also makes the human race lazier, or less athletic you could say. 
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I'm a high school student, and to be honest I still want to be able to drive.  But with limitation.
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I live about at most 3 miles from every place I need to go daily.  Theres thift shops, Family Dollar and game stores within a mile of my home,  and a 7-11 not much farther, Theres also a Naborhood Wall-Mart in 3 miles.  The only place thats not in walking distance is school, and I just take the bus.  My Mom daily drive...
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"VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneer, going where few soccer moms or commutin executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars."  In Vauban any street parking is forbidden, along with driveway and garage parking.  They are what you would call a "car-free" suburban are...
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They got lots of positive feedback from families in the development.
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Are we Americans causing most of our issues with gasses from cars?  Luckily no.
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"Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by."  As said by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the writer of the passage "The End of Car Culture" which go's into whether car numbers are increasing or decreasing, and whats in the future for it.  She says tha...
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While you might counter, "Thats just the economy effecting how everyone spends their money and cars werent at the top." 
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But people who stopped because of the recession may have no reason to restart that habit.
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Biking, A healthy way to transport your self from one place to another.  It keeps you fit, more active.  Alot of issues with people today is if they are over weight or not.  While I'm not saying that just because your thin that your healthy.  If you dont exercise or eat well you aren't.  To be Healthy and fit also does...
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Everyone wants to drive, with the freedom of going anywhere.  I know the feeling.  But overall we over drive, even if the amount has lowered.  It's no secret that it effects our town, our country, our world with C02 levels rising. 
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I'm notsaying lets get rid of cars completely.  But if everyonce in a while before you pick up your keys to go down to the near by 7-11, take a moment and set down your keys and walk.
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In my essay i will be telling you the advantages of limiting car usage
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In the 1st source one good fact they talked about was the greenhouse gas. They talked about how they can drastically reduce it. They all ready did it in the suburbs of Germany. There is a place there were you can not have a car and there are no drive ways no streets as a result more then 70 percent of vauban families d...
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it will be a healther place in the world because of less toxic gases
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In the 2nd source they took action and this takes place in paris. They passed a law were if your license plates were even numbered they were ordered to leave thier cars home or suffer a 31 dollar fine same goes for the odd numbers the next day. And if the dont pay there car gets impounded. They prefer to use diesel ove...
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In the 4th source there ideas were to get rid of cars in genrell. At the mobile world congress last year in Barcelona, Spain, Bill Ford, executive chairman of the ford motor comany, laid out a business plan for a world in which personal vehicle ownership is impractical or undesirable. He proposed partnering with the te...
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"Pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." Owning a vehicle helps get people from one place to another faster then just walking but some people really don't understand that the...
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In the excerpt "In German Suburb, life goes on without cars" by Elizabeth Rosenthal explains why limiting car usuage would help lower emissions. For example, "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. Cars...
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As you can see owning a car can be a advantage to your personal life but the enviroment is suffering because of the fumes from the vehicles everyone own but if less people start to walk more, ride bikes or even hike the enviroment wouldn't be suffering from so many emissions.
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Likewise, in the excerpt "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer highlights how limiting car usage can help conserve resources. For example, "After days of near-record polution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one ...
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Without any gasoline nobody will be traveling from one place to another so to conserve resources people are better off limiting the usage of their cars.
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In conclusion, using cars less would help to lower emissions and conserve resources such as in this case gasoline. If everyone keeps driving aroud in cars the air is going to be full of Greenhouse gases and eventually resources to run cars will soon run out. Then without a car to take people where they need to go peop...
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This is why limiting car usage is a advantage for fellow citizens because it helps lower emissions and conserves resources.
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In recent years car ownership has decreased with positive consequences. Life with out cars has its advantages
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It is reducing the amount of emissions put into the air
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cars are resposible for 12 percent of green house gas
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Life without cars can also relive stress
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An experimental car free community in Germany called "Vauban" completed in 2006 is a town where 70% of its residents do not own cars and the streets are completely car free. It's constructed so everything is within walking distance. This means no need for cars, wich means little to no polution
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People usaully bike or walk to their destination in Vauban."when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much better this way" says a Vauban resident. Vauban is a component of a movment called smart planning. As you can see, a community with no cars is prospering aurgurably better than one with cars. People are less stress...
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After a near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air oof the global city." france need a solution to reduce the smog, so they banned even-numberd license plates on monday and odd on tuesday. with some exceptions such as electric cars and hybrids. After five days of heavy smog and no cars...
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The USA has always been a car culture, but things are changing for the better. car liscense ownership rates have only decreased since 2005. this means we are putting out less emissions than 12 years ago! we are eqaul to where the country was in 1995. the reasons vary as to why lisence ownsership is decreasing but so f...
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A293591DB50C
1,622,674,524,595
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Limiting car usage has huge advantages and I encourage you to try walking or biking rather than using your car.
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A293591DB50C
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You will become more socail
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A293591DB50C
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fit
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034E502BA811
1,622,768,457,474
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476
In the last few years vehicle emissions have been heating and even destroying our atmosphere. Cities and even whole countries are taking precautions to lower the amount of fuel emissons recorded in the air. It's not only that people are trying to cut back to help the enviroment they just arent driving as much anymore f...
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034E502BA811
1,622,768,482,050
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In Germany there is a suburban city that has given up their use of vehicles. One of the local residents stated "When I had a car I was always tense, I'm much happier this way." You may not notice it but the hustle and bustle of everyday life and commuting may just be putting more stress on you. Cutting out personal com...
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034E502BA811
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In Bogota, the capital of Colombia it has been the third straight year of Day Without Cars. Day Without Cars is one day that all Colombians hike,bike,skate,walk or took public tranportation to get to work. The goal of Day Without Cars is to promote alternative transportation and reduce fines. A citizen talking part i...
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034E502BA811
1,622,768,512,137
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Now in America it has been recorded that Americans are buying fewer cars and getting less licences each year. The number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and have been slowly and steadily dropping after. Transportation is is the second largest source of emissions but you can help lower that. More and...
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034E502BA811
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Many great things can and have come by cutting down private transportation
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034E502BA811
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It conserves resources
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034E502BA811
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cuts down on emissions,
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034E502BA811
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also improves safety
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034E502BA811
1,622,768,447,622
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Multiple people say that commuting less has made thier lives less stressful than ever before.
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5A1AFAFE56BA
1,622,304,139,947
0
226
Cars, have been a way that almost everyone uses to get to point A to point B since around World War 2, And for awhile they were always growing in popularity. It seemed for awhile that cars were going to be around for some time
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5A1AFAFE56BA
1,622,304,145,105
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Almost everyone had a car, from the young to the old, all over the world people were driving. But that's going to change soon in the always evolving world.
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5A1AFAFE56BA
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"All of our developement since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," says David Golderg, an offical of Transportation for America. In the suburban community of Vauban, Germany residents are giving up their cars in an attempt to promote car-free communities. As a result 70 percent of V...
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5A1AFAFE56BA
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Paris, France, puts a ban of driving due to smog pollution due to the main usuage of diesel fuel. Paris usually has more smog than other European capitals as it is with it having cold nights and warm days trapping car emissions. The smog, which was progressivly getting worse, rivaled even that of Bejing, China, which i...
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5A1AFAFE56BA
1,622,304,064,253
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which goes to show that even a large city can fight something as global as pollution.
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5A1AFAFE56BA
1,622,304,155,508
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The people of Bogota, Cali, and Valledupar, Colombia take a day out of the year to have a car-free event. Bogota, the capital of Colombia, with a population of 7 million have been doing this for 3 years to promote alternate transportation and reduce smog. The violators of this event face a $25 fine, and probably more t...
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C5C6DED9C790
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0
69
i think it's pretty much safe for stop driving cars or give them away
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C5C6DED9C790
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given your cars away will reduicing accidents
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C5C6DED9C790
1,622,576,506,693
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more people will feeling safe when they walking in the streets and more parents will let their kids playing in the streets without asitated
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C5C6DED9C790
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the air will be good and everyone breath very well
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C5C6DED9C790
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more people will stop getting ticket from police.
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C5C6DED9C790
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taking some one 's cars away will hurt some people 's feeling and this idea sound good to me because some teenagers keep making some fast cars and racing in the streets and there  is some time most of them got their self killed or burning a life in the car if they can especially take those cars away it will be more saf...
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C5C6DED9C790
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'as a result ,70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold car to move to move here''i think those the talk about in this paragraph are acting smart,if all of those have been following those others example  sold their and take the money you could probably feeling better or let them take it away f...
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C5C6DED9C790
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''paris bans driving due to smog''that is the most dangerous part in driving cars when it smog in the air ,people have 55 percent chance to got yourself killing or cars crash. this idea was the greatest idea ever.
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E6D83F0D60B6
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0
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For many years now people have been cutting down on the usage of their cars. Their are many advatages to limiting car usage
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you become happier
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less pollution
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E6D83F0D60B6
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money is spent wisely
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E6D83F0D60B6
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In many countries around the world people have reduced the amount of time they use their cars and the outcome has been phenomonal. Heidrun Walter was asked about how she felt about taking cars out of her life, she answered "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," (Rosenthal par3). Cars have bee...
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E6D83F0D60B6
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When cars were taken out of their lifes they felt happier and stress free.
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E6D83F0D60B6
1,622,917,313,816
816
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In these last few centuries we have polluted the world more than anyone else has. This is due our technological advances. One of the biggist advance in these centuries is the motor vehicle. The car has now become a houshold item
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E6D83F0D60B6
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For many people in these countries they have gotten many benifites back. The government has always used "80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport" (Rosenthal par9). Its shocking how much money goes to bulding roads and not things for the development of our comunit...
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E6D83F0D60B6
1,622,917,409,261
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Their are many advantages to limiting car usage like people become happierand stress free, less pollution, and money is spent wisely. If everyone cuts back on the time they use their cars the world would be healthier, the population would be heathier and happier, in addition the government would use money for more impo...
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6C3DE9491C5E
1,622,733,077,990
0
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From Monster trucks to Volkswagen Beetles, all automobiles are created to make life easier for people from all corners of the Earth. Many people start up their cars everyday without a second thought, whether trekking across the street or across the country. Others believe that cars are ruining the Earth, and put effort...
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People everywhere should consider limiting their car usage.
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A community with less cars has proven to also be one with less healthy citizens.
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6C3DE9491C5E
1,622,733,158,275
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According to Source Two, Paris, a city known for it's aromatic scents, was covered with the smell and appearance of smog for days (they had near-record pollution: Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London). After a day in which all even-numbered lice...
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6C3DE9491C5E
1,622,733,191,439
1,713
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There are many more reasons why citizens should limit their personal car use. Owning a car is huge investment. You have to pay for gas and oil refills for any standard car based on how much it is driven.
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