Posted on 09/26/2015 6:41:49 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
i thought the emissions test was conduted at up to 3000 rpm...
and VW and others passed..
so exactly what did VW do that was “wrong” if the diesels would not pass above the tested level..???
SEEMS TO ME THE REGULATORY BODY WAS AS USUAL AN INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT / QAISI GOVERNMENT ENTITY THAT EITHER DUE TO INCOMPETENCE OR DELIBERATELY RIGGED THE TEST..... HMMMMMMM ANY $$$ CHANGE HANDS..???? HOW MUCH AND FROM WHOM TO WHOM.... OR WAS IT WASHED THRU lobbyits...
I would look closely at the EPA’s standards for diesels before using the word scandal.
There probably aren’t two honest persons on that lying agency, and the science IQ of the place wouldn’t merit a high school degree.
The EPA respect is right down there with Dorkbama the Muslim, congress, and your loca. Septic tank.
Ugh! Another leftist a-hole from the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor. This guy should live in fear for the rest of his life!
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THE ELECTRIC CAR LOBBYISTS AT WORK........
TAKING AN UNECONOMICAL UNICORN FANTASY AND SHOVING IT UP OUR
Go look at their website. A bunch of envirowackos out to save the world assisted by a bunch of academics pimping for dollars.
If you want to find something wrong you always can.
I’ll take odds that he votes dummycrat.
I have it on authority I trust that the emissions standards for diesel cars are ridiculous and nearly impossible without retooling everything and jacking up the prices. VW is not in business for selling high-priced cars.
They are likely not the only company doing this... just the one who got caught. It’s likely political.
Conspiracy theory 1: The government in collusion with the UAW took down a major competitor.
Conspiracy theory 2: The Obama Administration is continuing on its assault on the West in striking at the heart of the German economy... the linchpin of the European Union.
“But, but it’s plugged into a wall and doesn’t use gas so how can it pollute? Answer that smarty pants!”
I actually had a lib say that to me when I questioned them about electric cars and pollution.
Been here since 1983 and have NEVER owned anything but an American made car, alas what Trump is saying, “Make America great again”!
Just think where we would be today if every American citizens would pledge to refuse buying foreign made items!!
Virtually impossible due to Folks own greed!!!
Yeah, well, German Chocolate Cake has the same problem. “German” was the last name of a mid-19th century employee of a American baking products company that developed a chocolate, and a century later, a housewife created the cake using that chocolate.
Remember how Janet el Reno went after Microsoft because of the lack of corporate income that didn't find its way to the political class at the time?
One cannot sxmell or see anything from the tail pipe of the new VW Diesels.
When will they make CO and CO2 illegal?
It's fraud by a fascist entity and need not be defended.
Tithing to the politicos is mandatory for survival in this amerika.
Most corrupt nation on the planet.
I suspect that the EPA would like to rid the world of diesel cars, just like they are regulating the coal fired power plants out of exsistence. All they need to do is keep tightening the standards to the point that it no longer makes practical sense to make them. Power and gas mileage really seem to suffer with all the emission restrictions, which is exactly why you want to buy a diesel in the first place.
I’ll be turning on every light in the house on ‘Earth Day.’ My fireplace will never have a catalytic converter. And I am going to do some extra idling in my TDI just to stick it to the green Mafia.
The TDI VWs have an exhaust system that looks like a miniature chemical processing plant.
Other car manufacturers have built-in much more expensive pollution controls to make the car compliant at all times, as required by law. This very concern has kept Mazda's record-setting diesel from the US (it almost passes California standards, but can't without higher cetane fuel (the US doesn't have that commonly available) or with another $1,000-$2,000 in pollution mitigation per car.
In short, VW got all the sales benefits with none of the costs.
Was what he reported false? No - VW has admitted it. He's not responsible for the consequences, VW's management is. If he sits on the results, he's just as complicit in the fraud as VW's management. The fact that he's probably a liberal, environmental wacko is irrelevant.
VW did wrong but don’t deserve to be destroyed for bringing the public good, economical cars.
This is the judgement of the securities market - who's to say it is wrong? Perhaps, it over-reacted but it wasn't an unjust administrative fine (those are coming in all likelihood).
This is a vendetta against a non-union shop in Tennessee and diesels.
Perhaps but I doubt it. Far more likely, a corporation which tried to skirt around regulations and got caught. IMO, I don't think it is the last. I personally suspect that this is going on with diesel pickup truck engines, too.
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