Posted on 12/21/2016 9:02:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
Dieselgate-style fraudsters should face tough punishments, including prison sentences, for cheating air pollution rules, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme said today (20 December).
Erik Solheim told reporters in Brussels, “Deliberate cheating needs punishment”.
“You need to come down hard economically on companies,” Solheim said, adding there needs to be a “personal” consequence for such scams.
Asked if that should include custodial sentences, Solheim said, “We need to speak up for those companies that do well and shame those who do not perform and, in the very worst cases, sentence or punish.” …
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I think anyone that deigns to regulate a product like cars, trucks or motorcycles as to design, MPG or performances, should be sentence to a firing squad of 12 gauge shotgun shells loaded with pig manure and buckshot, or a $1 Million dollar fine, and 10 years in jail
Its such crap. Those were fine cars that only had one problem, dealing with governmental insanity over the invisible friend of global warming.
Why? It was your fraud that compelled their fraud.
Regarding all the government climate freaks with their overhyped claims of “climate change,” I say, “Lock ‘em up!”
I received a buyback under this plan for my VW TDI and will be turning it in next week. I had fully intended to keep the car forever, and being a turbo-diesel that got 44mpg on average, it was an amazingly fun and inexpensive car to run. However, with these idiots in full cry trying to cripple the automaker (VW has fought the unions here), I didn’t feel safe keeping the car with the future being murky for them. Bloody environmentalism fronts...
The EPA bureaucrats that set our emissions regulations on Diesels to be even more strict than those of Europe should be the ones to go to jail.
The EPA is a swamp that needs draining.
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