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

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: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:07PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:07PM (#771638) Journal

    That's just it - nylon may or may not have eventually replaced hemp. Nylon does have advantages over hemp, but hemp also has advantages over nylon. The advantages were never really tested, especially by the Navy, because the hemp was simply removed. No head-to-head competition was permitted, and commander's personal preferences were never given any consideration.

    Personally, I have never used a dacron rope. Nylon is pretty much all I ever used in the Navy. Since my Navy days, I've used a lot of polyethylene and a lot of nylon rope, no dacron.

    Keep in mind that hemp was not obsoleted, it was outlawed instead.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:49PM (#771652)

    We know what you're really getting at. Damn kids these days and their reefer madness!