1. Cars are evils resulting from modernization, for they make people suffer rather than enjoy life.
2. The roads are so often jammed with cars that ambulances and fire engines find it difficult to fulfill their duties.
3. Driving a car brings out a man's worst qualities. He swears and becomes ill mannered and aggressive.
4. People have hidden frustrations and disappointments are brought to the surface when they drive.
5. Road networks for cars have not only made cities uninhabitable, but also have desecrated the countryside.
6. Cars often produce air pollution and fill the cities with unbearable noise.
7. Cars are the cause of traffic accidents. In China in 1994 66,000 people were killed in auto accidents.
8. Traffic accidents not only bring death and injury but also make people suffer great psychological damage.
9. Every year great amounts of money is spent on road taxes, purchases, oil etc. This is a great drain on their resources.
10. To own a private car can cost you a fortune.
11. If everyone had a car in China there would be no room on the roads and no place to park.
12. Because of China's large population, many cars would create many serious social problems.
13. We should create a better means of transport that will bring joy and comfort instead of death and injury.
14. More cars mean more roads and car parking facilities. This decreases the land available for agriculture.
15. Too much good farmland is being consumed for the purposes of autos.
16. Autos are adding to the noise pollution in big cities making it unpleasant to live in them.

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