[美利坚小组]TPO4独立写作

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Will there be fewer cars in use in twentyyears than they are today, as the speaker asserts? As far as I am concerned,although cars used to play, are playing and will play an important part inpeople's daily life, they will gradually suffer a decrease in significance. Itshould be no wonder if twenty years later people find there are not as manycars in use as there are today. My reasons are as follows.

To start with, in the future cars will nolonger be able to meet people's needs for travelling fast and comfortably. Oneof my neighbors is a businessman, he once complained that in the past thelongest distance he needs to drive across is just to the adjacent province, atwhich time cars are really utilities tools. But now, because of the process ofglobalization, it is not uncommon for him to attend a business meeting in Paris in the morning and have dinner in Tokyo at night. That explains why althoughcars are significant to many people in the past, they are not very useful now,and will be even less useful in the future.

Another factor contributing to the car’sdecrease in number in future lies in that cars, like many other things, used tobe the perfect luxury for people to show off wealth. In China the first thingmany people do, once get rich, is to buy a brand new Benz of BMW, to satisfythe mental demand to be admired by neighbors. However, due to the developmentof science and technology, the price of cars becomes lower and lower. More andmore people find that cars are no more unaffordable, although they do notnecessarily buy one themselves, in that there are other transporting toolsavailable at the same time. This trend, which is unlikely to cease, will leadto cars gradually losing its old glory identity as a luxury, and consequentlyits lure to rich people.

Besides, in the future, people will payincreasingly more attention to environmental protection. Cars, being oneprimary consumer of petroleum and one major cause of carbon dioxide emission aswell as acid rain, will confront a threat of existence. Car owners may no longerbe willing to pay for the daily higher oil price and endure the pressurederived from a sense of social responsibility and more and more keenenvironmental protection awareness. Chances are that they will switch to otherpublic transporting tools, which will undoubtedly be even more convenient andcozy in the future.

To sum up, in the future, cars will notmean that much to people. Unavoidably, they will suffer a decrease in number.