What exactly is in that Fahrvergnugen, VW?

Blame the law for the criminals?

I guess you've turned over a new leaf.

 

So you don't think that a "green" company such as Volkswagen doing this is at least hypocritical? And since they were so strongly on board with the Green Agenda, what do you suppose made them do it?

And I note you dodged the second question. Will the air be a lot cleaner when those cares are burning A LOT MORE diesel fuel?

 

Their criminality and hypocrisy made them do it. They're bad people who don't care about anything besides making money. That's a pretty simple answer. I know you want to blame Obama and tree-huggers, but this is as clear-cut a case of fraud as you're ever going to find in the business world.

To your second question, it's more of your usual nonsense starting from a fallacy. They can build a better engine. But 30-35 mpg of not-horrible fuel is of course better than 45-50 mpg of the crap they're using now.

 

Has anyone mentioned that the government gave them $51 million in green-energy subsidies based on this fraud?

U.S. taxpayers duped into shelling out $51 million in green subsidies for 'clean' VW vehicles

 

Should have given the money to Tesla ... Their cars are out there, in a radical and tubular sort of way.

 

I'm thinking this is neither the first nor the last instance of fraud when it comes to green energy subsidies.

 

Yeah, that $51 million could have saved Solyndra.

 

I assume the number of cars affected and the money involved is enough for all of us to be sufficiently outraged.

 

I don't know yet. As I noted above, since this is an EPA case, only cars in the US should be affected.

I don't know for sure, but I think the vast majority of the cars that were rigged are actually outside of the US. I have no idea what emissions testing programs are like in other countries,

 

As you might know, I'm not a big fan of outrage, but yeah, this is pretty damned outrageous.

 

All 11 million VW vehicles with this TDI engine pump out 40 times more pollution than was originally thought. Does it really matter over what line on the map that pollution is floating?

 

And could kill off the company:

Volkswagen scandal may put car maker’s survival on the line