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Old 03-30-2018, 09:40 PM   #227 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by COcyclist View Post
The fines and penalties to VW were supposed to be about emissions but what is the carbon cost to our planet of taking perfectly good cars off the road, that will go 45 miles on a gallon of diesel, and replacing them with bigger, heavier SUVs?
Even if they were going to replace them with small-displacement motorcycles and sidecars, taking perfectly good cars to the scrapyard seems pointless at all.
workaround ideas to discuss among friends: Why is it pointless to ban older Diesel cars like it's been proposed in Germany?
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