First of all, I would like to mention the necessity of having a car. We all like travelling. I know that we can’t travel overseas by car, but very often people choose to travel by car if it is a place on the same continent. Sometimes it can be cheaper, or more convenient or even more fun. We also need cars for simple things like going to work and taking your kids to school, or going to the doctor’s. My mom needs her car to go to the market and bring all the things we need at home.
On the other hand, people also drive cars to show off or as a status symbol. Millions of euros are spent each year on new, expensive cars. For some people it is very important to show the others that they can afford the latest model of Mercedes Benz or BMW. But is it really worth it? Is it really their car that the others are most interested in?
It doesn’t matter what kind of car we have. What matters is that they all pollute the air with their toxic fumes. It is a fact that older cars are worse in that context compared to the new and more sophisticated models. Still, there are so many cars in the streets that it is becoming a very serious problem. Special teams of scientists in the car factories are working on projects to find alternative types of fuel that would be harmless to the nature.
I know that people will go on driving their cars, old, new, cheap, expensive, small and big. It really doesn’t matter what kind they are, we need them. However, we also need to spend some time thinking whether we can substitute the car with other means of transport like buses, bikes or we can even walk whenever possible.
