Cars have been one of the most
demanded transportation worldwide. It made up 74% of the total motor vehicles
annual productions. The reason why people choose to buy a car is for their
comfort and practicality. With many competitions and requests from
international customers, cheap and smart cars were produced for all people to
buy. Not for long, this world will have more cars than people. Not only cars
volume is rising but also traffic and pollution it cause hence car tax must be
increased in order to decrease traffic and pollution.
The first reason why car tax must
be increase is to reduce traffic. Traffic happened all around the world. Traffic
is a waste of time, resources and health. According from DetikFinance, Jakarta has
suffered Rp. 12.8 Trillion per year because of traffic, this was already
included material and effective work time loses. The main reason why traffic occurs
is because the volume of vehicles is greater than the road’s volume. This was
proven from a researched conducted in Japan; "When
a large number of vehicles, beyond the road capacity, are successively injected
into the road, the density exceeds the critical value and the free flow state
becomes unstable." Professor Sugiyama stated. In
2012, it is recorded that over 60 million cars was produced. Just imagine all
those cars traveling in the narrow roads. Without limitations from authorities,
people who can afford to buy more cars will certainly buy another one. With
higher car tax, people will think twice to buy another car. With customer’s
desire restricted by the law and future balance financial life, the amount of
demanded cars will be decrease, therefore traffic can be avoided. With less
traffic, we can save more time, resources and health wasted from the event.
The second reason is to decrease
pollution. By average, a car produced 3.628739 kg of CO2 per year. After
calculating, it is estimated that more than 4 tons of CO2 emission floating
around our atmosphere. The pollution produced by the combustion will affect our
health and environment. In Beijing, China, emergency shutdowns are made when
the air pollution levels are high. CO2 poisoning can cause suffocation,
headaches, unconsciousness and long exposure to CO2 may lead to death. From
National Geographic, CO2 is one of greenhouse gasses that contribute for global
warming – “Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is
the main pollutant that is warming Earth.”
The only way to reduce CO2 level is by reducing the production, for example
cars. Higher car tax can decrease the amount cars bought and used. Fewer cars mean
less air pollution.
Many people are concern that the
increase of cars taxation may lead to unemployment due to car manufactures bankruptcy.
I understand that everybody needs jobs to provide their basics need however
they are wrong. With this new law, more companies will start to establish
eco-friendly products. The workers can also find a better job that can help the
world. Some also believed that the taxation means that lower middle class people
can’t afford cars. Transportation is important but we can still use public
transport. If many people use public transport, less CO2 will be produced and
traffic. Public transports are more efficient.
From the evidences and
researches, it is clear that higher car tax can decrease traffic and pollution.
Before, the law may not be implemented since there are less cars and roads but
it must be change today. By implementing the law, a great and clean future can
be achieved.
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