Tax on fuel

Nguyen Trong Nhan
Many people think that raising the fuel tax is the best way to solve traffic
jams and environment – related problems. To what extent do you agree/
disagree?
It is said that increasing on taxation of fuel is the positive idea
which governments are able to reduce traffic jams and
environment. Although there are some conveniences of this
phenomenon, I would argue that there are far more drawbacks.
There are many reasons why people harbor the view that it is
essential to raise fuel fee. It is noticeable that inclining in fuel tax
leads to the result that people are less using than the past.
Therefore, there will be a significant decreasing on gasoline which
is very limited in the world, and air polluted are not emitted much
than the past; thus, environment and health are surely protected.
Moreover, the habit of using own vehicles are going to change
because humans turn to get acquainted with public
transportations. As the result, there are no longer so much cars
on the street; that’s why the authority wants to increase the tax
to reduce the traffic jams.
Despite the positives which are mentioned above, I believe that
imposing tax on fuel is a negative development for a variety of
causes. The first is that ripple effects occurs when an important
consumer good as gasoline has increasing on value. To be more
specific, all of consumer index also have a considerable raising on
price in other to catch up with the market trend. This leads to the
negative result that lower-class citizens find it very difficult to
manage ends meet every day. Secondly, instead of taxation on
fuel fee, the governments should give special care to renewable
energy such as the water, wind, solar energy. If more sustainable
are utilized to run vehicles and factories, there will be less
emission of harmful gases which contributes increasing air

pollution considerably.
In conclusion, while I recognize that the advantages of fuel tax
imposing, I consider it a negative development overall.