Some people support the idea of imposing taxes on fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) in order to
reduce energy consumption. Others disagree with this approach.
Consider the debate and its arguments, and come to your own conclusion.
Most people agree that the use of fossil fuels should be reduced to some extent. However, imposing
taxes is a controversial tactic which appears to have a number of contradictory effects. We will consider both
sides of the discussion in this essay.
On the one hand, those who support taxation of fossil fuels promote the idea that higher prices will
lead to lower consumption and thus lower emissions. They point to evidence from countries such as Sweden
where this appears to be the case, and urge other nations to follow suit. Furthermore, proponents of fuel taxes
claim that the funds raised can then be used to subsidise renewable energy projects such as solar and localised
biofuel reactors. To the supporters of the idea, these benefits are convincing.
However, opponents of fuel tax are able to cite evidence from other countries (including France and
Italy) where higher tax has apparently not reduced demand for such fuels. In these cases, the effect has been to
force people to pay more for the same volume of energy, which appears to penalise those who can least afford
it. Moreover, critics of fuel tax also highlight the difficulty in governments promising renewable schemes
without interfering in the entire energy market. If the state was to control the entire market for fuels, they say,
this would force suppliers to leave the market, thus reducing competition and efficiency. This argument also
appears to be quite powerful.
Overall, I would tend to side with the opponents of fuel taxation. It seems to be unreasonable to force
vulnerable consumers to pay more for a commodity which is essential to them, without a real infrastructure
for renewable energy being in place. It would be more logical to improve availability of renewables first, which
would allow consumers to make a genuine choice.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...o penalise those who can least afford it. Moreover, critics of fuel tax also hig...
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...on and efficiency. This argument also appears to be quite powerful. Overall, I w...
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...ailability of renewables first, which would allow consumers to make a genuine choic...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, then, thus, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1575.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23255813953 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67313272568 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578073089701 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3591103185 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.0 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0666666667 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 19.0 4.38176352705 434% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.01903807615 199% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175604551743 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0621089944012 0.084324248473 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0331861663132 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.05225417975 0.151304729494 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0443446752989 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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