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RC:

On the other hand, it seems that consumers in Germany aren't really avoiding VW, so maybe there is hope that while VW might suffer many legal issues and legal payments, the customers (and potential customers) won't be that angry as initially anticipated. Time will tell...

Actually many people consider this affair as another Great American plot to destabilize someone somewhere and consequently they are sympathetic towards VW Smiley

Besides very few of those who enjoy the benefits of diesel fuel worldwide have been convinced that NOx from private diesel cars is the leading cause of death and disease on the planet, like the EPA tries to cause us to believe.

Personally I am still a VW Group fan Smiley

If the legislators were to be consistent in their quest to reduce air pollution, they would have had to close all coal-fired electricity generating stations long before now, but industry lobbies and the absence of rational long-term planning of infrastructure projects has instead led to the usual fudged solutions. 

This does not alter the fact that in this particular instance a small number of people, who really should have known better, were dumb enough to think that they could get away with it if they solved a problem they had by consciously and deliberately breaking the law. The outcome is that a very large number of people are now going to have pay a great deal in various, different ways for the fact that the initial problem was not confronted as it should have been. 

 


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fritz