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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards

posted by martyb on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-harm-could-a-lie-do dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @06:59PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @06:59PM (#771626)

    Using the cars even with their flaws
    Or
    Junking the flawed cars and Making new cars with slightly better emissions & gas mileage?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @07:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @07:39PM (#771632)

    It's not about CO2. It is about pollution that causes smog. People die from it.

    • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:09PM

      by Nuke (3162) on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:09PM (#771639)

      Whatever. OP's question remains.

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:57PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:57PM (#771658) Homepage Journal

    Consider that the Bessemer Process requires large amounts of coal.

    Bessemer would not work with oil or natural gas, so please do ensure you recycle your soup cans

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:51AM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:51AM (#771812) Journal

    False dichotomy. I'll take re-flash the ECU and sell the car for less.