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limiting car use would also limit the pressure on car owner's wallets.
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Car-driving, the catalyst to the wonders of travel, will continue to drive on the pollution of our Earth. Babysitters, doctors, students, and even the retired will thrive from limitations of car usage. Whether by limiting car usage or not, Earth's inhabitants need to ensure their planet is treated right. 
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There are many advantages of limiting your car usage
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and it too can help the Earth.
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Limiting car usage can be very helpful towards your health and your environment around you. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Robert duffer and Andrew selsky has all written down thier opnions down suggesting for more people to use bikes, buses or even walking to help people use less cars.
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Why, would anyone walk but have easier transport by driving a car? because by walking you being saving money and lowering down pollution that is in the air.
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In In German Suburb, Life goes on without cars written by Elisabeth Rosenthal; she is explaining how in Vauban,Germany is a "car-free" city and if you own a car owership you would have to pay a lot of money just for a space in your home for you car. Elisabeth has eclaimed that " Car ownership is allowed, but there are...
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Also, by not using your car, it can lower down rush-hours and traffice.
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As stated in this quote by Andrew Selsky written in Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota: " Rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffice; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up". That is very good for the people because they would getting plenty of exerices while walk...
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Paris has been noticing smog going everywhere in france and needs to do something about it so they enforced a partial driving ban to clear up the air.
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As stated in this quote by Robert Duffer who has written Paris bans driving due to smog, "Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has . . . [a] tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline". This quote is explaining how using up too much gasoline can lead to serious problems like having heavy smog everywhere in the count...
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In concluson, Being able to save your money, and help out the Earth can always be a good thing. Polluting the air can lead to many problems in the future and that could damage many lives and places. Always know how to respect your planet by always using less gas or no gas at all. Biking and walking can lead to a better...
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The advantages of limiting car usage is incredible
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we can actually just get out of the house and hang out with friends and family. Also people could get some exersice at that by walking to work or school or wherever you are going to and the percentage of people with obesity would most likey drop down excessivley by just doing this.
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You also might actually have a happier life by giving up automoblies
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In this new approach, to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation. Stores are placed just a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highways where you need a car to get there.
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By doing things like this especially in America would be big in safety
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you would have to worry as much about your children being hit or ran over by cars or being kidnapped to because you can only walk or ride bikes, taxis and public buses. Therefore you can also take time and actually look where you are and where you live and take it all in instead of panicing and being all tense and str...
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By doing this it would also decrease the amount of congestion in different cities across the globe
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In my opinion, I'd love to try in do this because we would  not be on our phones going strait to our cars  instead we would be walking or riding our bike or get on a public bus and actually see and meet people instead of just waiting in the traffic and waiting to just go and do whatever we want to and the Internet is a...
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Cars are going to be gone in the near future. There have been talks and actions taken place to assure we limit our car usage. We as the United States seem to have pasted our use for cars as independent owners. We have also started several different programs or actions around the world to assure we stop pollution with ...
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In some parts of the world mainly Bogota, Colombia they have start to reduce the use of cars to avoid pollution and promote the use of other types of transportation. As it is stated in source 3 : Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Selsky " The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce...
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limiting car use will benefit us in many ways but barely affect us at all
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The main idea is to limit car usage and we can do that by the law that forces us stop car use in general. Another way we can accomplish this is by being an average teen in the United States. 
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we have loads of stress by driving.
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The limiting the use of driving is a way we should use to benefit us as human and to be more joyful.  
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Believe it or not there are ways people may be harming the environment without actually knowing it
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If you really think about it though there are many ways you can help prevent harm to the environment. One of them is limiting car usage.
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The advantages to giving limits to this could be very helpful to restoring our world.
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A city in Germany has gone the extra mile to solve problems due to car use. What the residents of Vauban, an upscale suburban community have done is, they have all given up their cars. Street parking, driveways, and garages are not allowed. The only way to park is to buy a parking spot along with your home for $40,000....
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In Paris there had been days of near-record pollution. To help clear the city's air Paris enforced a partial driving ban. Monday, moterists with even numbered liscence plates were forced to leave their cars at home or pay a $31 fine. Rejecting the fine resulted in having your car impounded. As a result 60 percent of co...
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According to recent studies Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer liscences each year. Even though America has basically been the birthplace of cars and is one of the world's prime car cultures its love seems to be cooling down. The number of miles driven in the US peaked in 2005 and steadily...
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In conclusion there are many advantages to limiting car usage. Many communities have taken part of this trend and it is rapidly being recognized around the world. Taking part in this helps the community and environment. Anyone can do it
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If the usage of cars are limited their would be less greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Greenhouse gasses are responsible for global warning and the melting of the polar ice caps. If you limit the amount of car usage their would be less cars on the road and it would by a lot quieter at night. In some parts of the United States 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions are from passender cars. thats a sign that ...
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If you want to help cut back on the greenhouse gas emission than only use your car if your giong a far distance.
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you dont need to use your car to go down the street, or around the block.
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You should use your car to go anywhere in your neighborhood thats walking distance
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So next time your about to get in your car think about if you really need to take your car.
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Everyday when you wake up and get ready for work there's always one thing you use, it's inched it's way into your daily life and now you wouldn't be able to do most things without it. It's your four wheeled friend that sits out in your driveway or garage, your car. Every day millions of people drive miles and miles in ...
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but what people don't understand is the need to limit just how much they use their automobile companions.
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Cars have changed our lives for the better and for the worse. They save us a tremendous amount of time by making traveling super efficient, but along with that is air pollution.
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Cars emit greenhouse gasses, and these gasses trap heat which in then leads to warming of the surface of the earth. This warming of the earth creates drastic changes in many environments such as the polar regions. "Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emmisions in europe... and up to fift...
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these gases create smog
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Smog is similar to fog but instead it has gases emitted from cars in it. Smog is usually thick and can be hazardous to environments. It was so bad in Paris that they set a partial driving ban in which people couldn't not drive becuase they didn't want the smog to get worse. The problem here is that people still continu...
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Automobiles have changed the way we live our lives and the way we do things, but they also have changed our communities.
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The typical city today consists of tall buildings and a surplus of streets and avenues, but parks are not as common. In Bogota there has been celebrating a day without cars for three years, and it has seen changes in the community. By having everyon give up their car for a day it can change their view on things, can ma...
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we depend on cars for daily purposes and it may seem hard to let go of your keys and walk, but if we all do that every once in a while it can lead to tremendous benefits. Imagine if you could walk outside and see people walking and enjoying themselves, not having to worry about gas prices or traffic jams. Imagine if we...
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There are many efforts from different countries to reduce car usage.  Countries like Germany, France, Colombia, and the United States are trying to raise awareness and get people to not use their car as much.  These countries are raising awareness for example by having car-free days, banning driving for a day, turning ...
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These counrties are making the efforts to reduce car usage because they know that there are great advantages if citizens limit their car usage.
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In Vauban,Germany, low-car suburban life is their motto.  Car ownership is allowed , but with a price.  As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move to Vauban.  Heidrun Walter says that she is happier without a car and when she did have a car, she says she was always te...
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Because of air pollution and smog due to cars, Paris had to start banning people from driving certain days.  If you  were caught driving when you weren't suppose to, a fine was inforced.  Almost 4,000 drivers were fined according to Reuters.  Diesel fuel was the blame of the smog because France perfers diesel over gas....
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A big event in Bogota, Colombia is their car-free day.  Only buses and taxis were permitted.  Violators of the car-free day faced a fine.  The turnout was large even though there was rain.  "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating", said the Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus.  Citizens of Colombia were happy partic...
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"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution", said buisnessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode his bike.  Municipal authorities from all over the world came to see this event. The city's mayor also says that the day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-...
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The advantage of the car-free day has made parks and sports centers more popular to go to
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the old sidewalks are being replaced with new paved ones. 
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The traffic has also reduced.
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In the United States, President Obama goals are to curb the United States greenhouse gas emissions.  The Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities.  The efforts to reduce driving is paying off.  A study found that driving by young people has decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.  Mr. S...
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All these efforts are helping people make the decision to limit their car usage and based on the facts, there are alot of advantages if you limit car usage.  This is only a start to raise efforts to reduce car usage, but I feel in the future we will be seeing a lot more people walking and biking than riding their car.
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Based on ideas and information in the article about advantages of limiting car usage, people are giving up their cars
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in the article it says that car ownership is allowed but, at the same time the amount of money for a parking place, $40,000, is way too much for people to afford.
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People also choose to live without an automobile because of how much it saves them in greenhouse gas,
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1,623,277,507,345
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Experts and other people think that limiting the use of car transportation will make cities more denser, and will make it easier for everyone to get around without having issues. In some places, there are people who rather take a car wherever they go for better advantage, but in other places like in the United States, ...
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people are starting to take advantages of just walking or finding their own ride places to save them money.
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88553C663AF4
1,623,277,549,408
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If you lived in Paris and got fined $31 for having an even numbered license plate, or on the other day got fined for an odd numbered license plate, walking or taking a different kind of transportation would probably be a good decision for you. In the outcome of that, the article states that almost 4,000 drivers were f...
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88553C663AF4
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A thing called "car-free day" takes place in Bogota, Colombia, and in this situation, according to the article, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated and even took buses to all the places they had to be, which in return of that, the streets were left eerily devoided of all possible traffic jams. On this "car-free...
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88553C663AF4
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Limiting car usage seems to be a good resourse
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Rosenthal writes that residents are "suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before...". Now, few people would equate soccer moms to such pioneers as Lewis and Clark but in their own way, they kind of are. In many European cities and suburbs, people have almost completely g...
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cars emit greenhouse gases and it's oh so bad for the environment
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and we all care. We really do. But do we care enough to give up our cars? Most likely not.
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76376E98F6EF
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But we could all stand to limit our driving, and it's easy enough.
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If the grocery store is only a few blocks away how about riding your bike or walking? You'll get a little exercise and a little less pollution. And while you're taking this walk, imagine the silence you would hear if everybody else was also doing this and the streets were empty. "The swish of bicycles and the chatter ...
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On the topic of big cities and driving the first picture that comes to mind is a big highway filled with honking cars and irritated drivers
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. Traffic.
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Los Angeles and New York City are only a few prime examples. Heidrun Walter, a mother in the car-less city of Vauban said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," (Source 1). The stress that driving through congested roads, or even just driving at all can causes a lot of problems such as accid...
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Minimizing to eradicating car usage would drastically decrease resource use, wasted time and pollution outputs while steadily increasing our own safety. Maybe next time you're ready to jump right in your car, consider another method of transportation.
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Having no cars would be bad for the economy but good for the enviroment.
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Cars are a modern invention we need maybe not for walking distances but they are part of an evolving culture.
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6D0552F0EF16
1,622,692,006,378
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Automobiles are a necessity whether they have hurt our society more than benefitting us or not.
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Now a days in VAUBAN, Germany people living in these lovely suburbs are living without automobiles. This area specifically is now known as a car free zone, all except for a main tram that runs from Vauban to downtown Freiburg. Although there arent any cars running on the streets doesnt mean ownership isnt allowed, you ...
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392CC0403D93
1,622,937,478,379
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Life for many people in Vauban is great because its the relief of no polution, the crashes and killings of pedestrians decreased greatly and just all in all less money wasted on gas.
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392CC0403D93
1,622,937,514,731
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Suburbs are used to great numbers of vehicles, just look at Chicago or Shanghai. A suburb is a place where many middle class families settle down and buy homes to live in.
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392CC0403D93
1,622,937,503,391
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This being said cars help greatly reduce the gas fumes in greenhouses when they are banned and not being used
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392CC0403D93
1,622,937,522,055
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Just a slight percentage of 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe alone and greatly increased to 50 percent in the United States.
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392CC0403D93
1,622,937,573,904
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Vauban, home to 5,500 residents is very small due to the no car zone, what people dont know is within this city is closely compacted stores (walking distance for short travel) and other buildings. Most of the development since World War II is the basic structure of a car, focusing on a car was the biggest development ...
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This banned vehicles and helped reduce smog.
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Though the rain comes down constantly on Bogota it hasnt stopped them from participating in this event, the people of Bogota state "it helps relieve stress and lower air polution I like it." Cali and Valledupar, two other columbian countries also decreased vehicle use. Many authorities from seperate countries took a b...
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392CC0403D93
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Studies in America state due to Obama's goal to lower greenhouse gas emissions is so fortuitous people of america are purchasing less vehicles, driving less and getting fewer licenses. The United States being the worlds largest population of driving is coming to an end. The United States is so large in the driving ind...
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392CC0403D93
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Getting rid of the transportation which sociologists think will happen isnt going to get rid of all the gas emission due to power plants.
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392CC0403D93
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New Yorks bike sharing policy and a Toll on bridges has greatly decreased driving in it.
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392CC0403D93
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This all shows exact evidence of how the earth is trying to better themselves to get rid of pollution. Not because they are getting rid of cars, but because they are getting rid of cars and keeping people happy
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Just remember, just because your forced to stop using a car doesnt mean you should give up and quit, just see it as a change in your life and a relief you are helping to make on earth.
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"Different things are converging which suggest that we witnessing a long term cultural shift," said Mimi Sheller. As technology advances the world will start to get rid of things we use to use before, so that those new advancements could come and take their place, as time flies we might not need cars anymore, even thou...
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giving up your car will have a major benefit to our everyday life, also there are many other alternatives that you could use instead of your car that will not only benefit you but also the people around you, such as bikes, busses, trains, and subways.
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Now that most companies are going green, they are developing ways to not let harmful gasses produced by vehicles that burn fossil fuels to stop damaging the earths atmosphere,
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644D2B4C9DB4
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so the air we breath isn't toxic and life threatening so maybe one day everyone can live in a much cleaner safer place.
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644D2B4C9DB4
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In a suburb in Germany, the residents have given up their cars completely as to where street parking, driveways and home garages are a thing of the past. There are now only two known ways of parking which is having to buy a parking garage space for $40,000, and your house. It has been working very well because 70% of t...
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644D2B4C9DB4
1,622,814,820,728
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if we reduce the number of drivers, or even come to a point where driving a car doesn't even exist anymore, the amount of angry people will be reduced, thus making the world a little bit nicer than it already is.
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644D2B4C9DB4
1,622,814,852,100
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reducing cars will reduce the amount of accidents followed by them
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644D2B4C9DB4
1,622,814,861,095
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Think about everyone you know, now picture those you love who have died by a car accident, Now whether they died by texting, drinking or someone else hit them
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