VW scandal "delights" UN Climate Chief

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the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change says she’s “delighted” by the scandal.


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“My friends I ask you, is it time to begin to build the museum to the internal combustion engine?” Figueres said at The Christian Science Monitor event. “Perhaps.”


I did a quick look but could not find the article; best I could find was this .
 
Well, regardless of the Article, I am delighted as well.

A gang of theives tricked car owners out of a lot of money through Fraud.

I spent years sitting behind shiny new VW TDIs turning off the outside vents and changing lanes to get out from behind them...

All the while, telling myself, "It is just the way the vehicle has a peculiar smell but it isn't a horrible polluter..."

I am ECSTATIC they were caught.

Do I feel HORRIBLE for people who purchased one on false information?? Of course I do. They got royally taken by a big fat corporate lie to feed the bottom line.

And it appears to be with their gas engines as well, and is extending to Audi and Porsche!

Car of the People? Sadly, more so during WWII than today.
 
Originally Posted By: Danno
Even more evidence that the UN is run by the loony tunes gang.


Yeah, I think it's troubling that anyone is "delighted" by something like this. There are a lot of people suffering within Volkswagen right now, who had nothing to do with this. I imagine there are job losses suffered at the corporate level, and there's a lot of uncertainty at the dealership level as well.
 
Being realistic, VW should have just implemented Urea from the get-go.

Seriously... All this to save adding the cost of a Urea system??

With all the money VW is saving on producing in Mexico and not in Wolfsburg, this should have been one of the things that "savings" should have funded.

It is absurd what VW did.

I'll quietly read people defend this, but it is far too early for popcorn, so...
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The US EPA was lucky that there was someone to hold them by the hand and show them what they missed. The problem is that the US EPA is in the business of politics and punishment and the technical aspects of their job is something that usually escapes them.
 
Of course they're ecstatic. This scandal gives them a huge leverage to run a Europe wide propaganda about eliminating diesel and eventually gas cars and force the electric vehicle on the market. It's a given that VW will have to start making electric cars now in order to be forgiven by the EU.
The masses will cheer and thank these lunatics for saving them from the horrible IC engines.
 
Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
Originally Posted By: Danno
Even more evidence that the UN is run by the loony tunes gang.


Yeah, I think it's troubling that anyone is "delighted" by something like this. There are a lot of people suffering within Volkswagen right now, who had nothing to do with this. I imagine there are job losses suffered at the corporate level, and there's a lot of uncertainty at the dealership level as well.
Gibbering leftys want to turn our government over to these brain dead ideologues. If your lies to the sheep don't work in a democracy, turn the government over to the "UN".
 
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I thought it was pretty sad... she apparently has no clue where electricity comes from, and/or believes it somehow is a 100% efficient process to go from well to wheels. Or something.
 
Yes, the UN may be "looney", the EPA may have needed help from a non-governmental agency to uncover "Dieselgate" etc., but it was VW who opened the door by not working within the rules all the auto-manufacturers are "saddled" with. Has the scrutiny gone overboard? I don't know, maybe, but none of it would have happened if VAG wasn't trying to get away with something. Same goes for every auto-manufacturer that does the same.
 
Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
Originally Posted By: Danno
Even more evidence that the UN is run by the loony tunes gang.


Yeah, I think it's troubling that anyone is "delighted" by something like this. There are a lot of people suffering within Volkswagen right now, who had nothing to do with this. I imagine there are job losses suffered at the corporate level, and there's a lot of uncertainty at the dealership level as well.


Not to mention all the poor folks who bought one! Porsche, Audi, etc. are all involved, too.

And the UN is a bad joke we need to get out of our country...
 
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
Of course they're ecstatic. This scandal gives them a huge leverage to run a Europe wide propaganda about eliminating diesel and eventually gas cars and force the electric vehicle on the market. It's a given that VW will have to start making electric cars now in order to be forgiven by the EU.
The masses will cheer and thank these lunatics for saving them from the horrible IC engines.


Want to know what's scary? The fact that your post is completely reasonable with the envirowhackos that are in charge of everything now. I would be surprised if this was not the case.
 
So, it you drive one of these vw's, is the emission decal you might have had to get now make it illegal for you to drive that car in your state.
 
I find it amazing how so many people love to bash "the media" while uncritically accepting things that happen to jive with what they think.

I also find it amazing how people get so bombastic about "the sheep" wile they themselves are in the process of bandwagoning over a headline with no context whatsoever.

The OP's second link is the only thing that even hints at what this person was actually saying when she used the word "delighted:"

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Figueres was referring to Volkswagen’s plan to stop making diesel cars and focus on plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles


That suggests she's happy about what VW is doing about the scandal, not about the scandal itself.

Hey, worry about "the sheep" all you want. Just remember about the log in your own eye and all that.
 
Originally Posted By: supton
I thought it was pretty sad... she apparently has no clue where electricity comes from, and/or believes it somehow is a 100% efficient process to go from well to wheels. Or something.


Nearly 50% of electricity in the EU comes from clean energy sources.
 
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