I partially agree with the statement that increasing fossil fuel prices is a way to reduce consumption and lessen the strain on the world’s resources. While the price increasing of fossil fuels will temporary reduce the usage of it, it doesn’t solve the real problem: the environment pollution.
For many years, the society lived around energy -either petrol, hydrogen, electricity and so on- and petrol was the primary and most important source of energy. If we suddenly increase the price of it, we will only create new problem, since the current alternatives are not that as “eco-friendly” as we think they are. The waste from batteries of eletric cars can be more dangerous for our environment than the pollution generated by the combustion engines. Also, since the interest in the pretol will decrease, the price will start to fall again, opening a door of oportunities to different industries to take advantage of the situation at start the problem over again, since it can become a cheaper solution instead of coal due the higher efficiency of the petrolium in during the flame.
Therefore, the reducing of the usage of fossil fuel needs to be a robust plan rather than simply solutions as price increasing. One alternative is a governmental incentive of usage of proven ecofuels, or convert part of revenue from general taxes to university’s studies focused to develop new green fuels or ways to reduce the impact of the current sources of energy instead of a remove a important fuel from our usage.
In conclusion, while increasing fossil fuel prices may reduce consumption in the short term, we need to focus into find ways to balance the usage all kinds of fuels that already exist and work hard to make them more efficient.