Excerpt from conserving energy and preserving the environment
bureau of transportation statistics: us d. o.t.
our communities, the economy and much of our lives are organized around our ability to travel easily and efficiently from
home to work or school, to shop or play, to receive medical care or just for the sheer pleasure of traveling (1) this freedom
has certain costs that accompany its many benefits. (2) vehicles, public and private, have to be purchased and operated;
(3)roads must be built and maintained; laws must be enforced so many people can travel at the same time, and (4) hundreds
of thousands of accidents inevitably occur.
which sentence restates the underlined clause labeled (2) in paragraph 2 more clearly
public and private vehicles must be purchased and operated;
vehicles must have to be purchased and operated on roads that must be
maintained;
vehicles, public and private ones especially, have to be purchased and
operated on roads
government agencies must purchase the vehicles that are public and while
the private citizens must purchase the vehicles that are private;