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Originally Posted by redpoint5
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My point is that nothing will make things right, and there are no solutions. If it were up to me, I would have VW make installment payments that improve health outcomes for people throughout the world, and not "fix" the cars they sold. Send those responsible for the SMOG defeat to prison.
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Like the Mikado, I'm suggesting the remedy needs to be fit the crime:
- Stop 'em - as quickly as possible, get them off the road. The offense is in the tail pipe. Get them off the roads so they won't continue spewing NOx, the first offense.
- Cure those who paid for 'em - those who paid good money were the first and most directly harmed. So make them whole by swapping new cars for old. If the owners are too pissed at VW, pay them their purchase price plus inflation plus 25% for their time and trouble.
- Everyone else - needs to be done in class-actions based upon where they fall. But when I spoke with Edmunds and Steenman, they have no plans to update their earlier articles. So did they suffer a harm so bad that they won't even lift a finger to correct their earlier articles and postings? In contrast, those who had given VW awards asked for them back and got them.
There are legal diesels so if someone wants one, they are available. But VW needs to 'stand down' until they can demonstrate they can and are only offering legal-diesels. That probably won't happen until VW releases their control software to the EPA/CARB along with hard data, backed up by Argonne testing.
VW is free to pursue their hybrid and electric vehicle development and future sales. A good faith effort would be to offer these to the current cheat-diesel owners. Crank up production and get them out there to replace the cheat-diesels.
Bob Wilson