Taking public transportation

Outline

1.Introduction
A.What is oil crisis
B.Problems of oil crisis
1.Increasion of oil crisis
2.Occur war
3.Economy problem

2.Thesis
:Factors of oil crisis and how to respond to this problem
1.Increasing of personal cars
2.Encouraging to use public transportation

3.Main arguments
A.Factor of oil crisis
1.There are many factors
2.The biggest reason is increasing of own car
B.Benefits of public transportation
1.Using public transportation to solve oil crisis
2.Good things of public transportation

C.Encouraging to take public transportation
1.Government's endeavor
2.The reasons of government's endeavor

D.Opponents opinion of using public transportation
1.Problem of public transportation in economy
2.Problem of public transportation to commuter
3.Problem of publictransportation in some area

4.Conclusion
A.Thesis restatement
B.Summary benefits of public transportation
C.Summary endeavors of government
D.Summary opponents' opinions

Abstract
Nowadays oil is the most important resource in our life. But we face a bad situation because of oil. Unstable oil price and its depletion causes war and many economic and political problems. So we should solve the oil problem. There are many solutions which are suggested to us but using public transportation is a good way to solve the problem, because it has lots of benefits; saves money and saves oil, etc. but to encourage people to take public transportation, government’s endeavor is also an important thing.

What do you think is the most important resource in our life? Many people think it is oil. The reason is that oil influences many parts of our life. But nowadays, we have faced on oil crisis. The oil crisis means there is an unstable oil price and its amount is depleted. And this oil crisis causes many problems in our society. The first is that the increasing oil crisis makes a hard time in our economy. Now our economy is supported by oil. So increasing oil price gives bad effects to economy. Oil has an important role in our lives, so many countries want to get much oil. But oil exists in limited areas, for example, Middle East. So other countries which don’t have oil start to make war to get oil. According to Lean, oil causes the Iraq war and this war causes the increase in oil price (para.2). And furthermore, the oil problem is connected to political problem, so sometimes it is used for political purposes.

There are many factors that cause the oil crisis. Though oil exists in limited areas, its amount becomes more limited consumption increases because of increasing of the number of personal cars. But nowadays, it is the most important factor is the increasing of personal cars. Increasing of the number of personal cars means many people use oil. So oil is being depleted now. To solve the oil problem, we should use our own cars less and try to use public transportation. So taking public transportation can be the solution to the problem.

There are many factors that cause the oil crisis; oil is spread in some areas and oil is a limited resource. And also there are many solutions to solve the problem; according to Ahmad, using public transportation will give many benefits to us ( para.9). And according to The Canberra Times, “LPG is usually less controversial than biofuels as its production is already established in Australia’s oil and natural gas field. It has relatively clean exhaust pipe emission. But it is easier to ignite in air than petrol and its storage tanks take up more space in a car” (para.17). And also, developing hydrogen and saving oil are good ways to solve the oil problems. But nowadays, the most important factor in oil crisis is increasing of the number of own car. So increasing of personal cars creates oil shortage. According to Wrobel, since 1910 the number of own car has increased so the number of own car increases 3 times in 2006 than before ( papa. 6). So it means many people become to use own cars and lots of people use much oil.

So now, there are many suggestions to solve the oil problem. But public transportation is the best way to solve the problem. The reason is that public transportation has many benefits. According to Semmens, “Reducing automobile use and encouraging public transportation is said to have other benefits as well: less traffic congestion; less air pollution and a more satisfied work force, as fewer people start the day frustrated or angry from the morning commute”(2008, para.3). And also according to Manor when we take a public transportation, we can save the our money (2007). Some people said oil’s another problem with oil is it also gives bad effects to our environment. Oil is non-renewable resource so it can’t be recycled. Finally as we use this, our environment is destroyed. So to protect our ecosystem, we should save oil and taking public transportation is good way to save oil. So many people recommend using transportation. To increase the number of people can take public transportation, we should have endeavor. Especially, the most important thing that is government’s endeavor. Now public transportation’s service and quality are very low. So many people don’t want to take a public transportation. When people use their own car or take a public transportation, they should spend the money. So some people think taking public transportation is waste their money. So government should try to increase public transportation’s quality. According to Ahmad, “These lower-cost alternatives will give us four to eight times the number of kilometers of public transportation routes compared with LRT. This means that public transportation will reach more people and more people will be encouraged to use public transportation” (2008, para.11). And in “Government to focus on public transportation”, “Treating the development of public transportation as a priority is one of the city’s long-term strategies” (2006). Now still, nations don’t know about public transportations’ benefits. So government should try to spread information about public transportation’s benefit. And they should make public transportation systems. If there is no public transportation, for example, or there are no buses or subways finally, people will choose their own car.

But not everyone agrees with public transportation. The first reason is that a public transportation’s price isn’t fair. When oil price is increased public transportation’s fee is increased. But it is a problem that even though oil price is decreased, again, transportation’s fee isn’t decreased. Finally, their price will increase continually. Many people use public transportation to save money. But unfair fee doesn’t help to people. And furthermore our public transportation’s quality is not good. But people should pay expensive money. Thus these situations make people keep to distance from a public transportation. According to Hagenbaugh, “Public transportation officials across the U.S.A say they have seen very little drop-off in passengers on buses and trains in recent weeks despite the dramatic decline in gasoline prices” (2006, para.2). So finally, public transportation doesn’t give benefit of the economy to nation, but gives the burden of their domestic. And it also has the defect that it is too massive.So it is very inconvenient to people, especially, commuters. According to Christian Science Monitor, “Dispels any kind of notion through that no one uses public transportation in Los Angeles” (2008, para.2). So for those reasons, some people say that taking public transportation has many defects; their price isn’t fair so they can’t encourage to save money, it is too crowded to commute every morning and some areas’ transportation. So for those grounds, some people sayl that using public transportation isn’t a good way.

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