Thread: VW caught by the Yanks for breaking emission laws

Originally Posted by joel0407

I have it on good word that this vehicle didn't meet emissions either but it was turned around for other reasons before it got to Australia.

Irregular Sleigh Vehicle Towed Back To North Pole ? The Shovel

Methane emission regulations?

Some of these desk jockies must be running out of regulations to invent

Originally Posted by isuzurover

I will tell all my colleagues who are experts in cancer and diabetes epidemiology they can rest easy then. Cbt says if your current health check is ok you won't develop any long term health effects due to environmental exposures...

I don't wish to be dismissive of the experts or the facts that they have laboured to present us, but I will be 62 in a couple of weeks and I have spent my entire life breathing the most polluted air that Australia has to offer, that is, the air of inner western Sydney. Quite stupidly I have spent a lot of that time smoking as well.
I don't claim to have suffered no damage from that but I do lead a normal, active and happy life.
Cheers, Billy.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

I don't wish to be dismissive of the experts or the facts that they have laboured to present us, but I will be 62 in a couple of weeks and I have spent my entire life breathing the most polluted air that Australia has to offer, that is, the air of inner western Sydney. Quite stupidly I have spent a lot of that time smoking as well.
I don't claim to have suffered no damage from that but I do lead a normal, active and happy life.
Cheers, Billy.

There are of course rare individuals who have smoked all their lives and/or worked with asbestos for many years yet remained healthy. It doesn't mean either of those things are any less harmful, just that some people either have good luck or good genetics.

Mate of mine turns 70 next year,he is a retired carpenter, at work some days they couldn't see from one end of the workshop to the other for asbestos dust

His lungs are fine, but his is wife died from asbestosis,at 38yrs old,the asbestos in his clothes was the cause of her asbestosis.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

There are of course rare individuals who have smoked all their lives and/or worked with asbestos for many years yet remained healthy. It doesn't mean either of those things are any less harmful, just that some people either have good luck or good genetics.

Yes I am aware of that. Hope fully I am one of the genetically blessed, because I've had some serious exposure to asbestos as well.
Please don't think that I am one of those who is not concerned about air quality or environmental issues in general. I just wonder how important an issue NoX really is and whether by focusing so much attention on the things we can easily clean up, we are not ignoring the things that are more difficult that will eventually get us in the neck.
I said in an earlier post that we should be focusing on phasing out fossil fuel burners. That sentiment was reenforced by muddymech's post which alerted us to the comment by Elon Musk that VW should be made to invest in the production of Electric Vehicles That same amount that they would have been fined.
We probably all know subconsciously, that ultimately VW will get no more than a spaghetti flogging if the action agains them is punitive, because they just cannot be allowed to go down in a screaming heap. Forcing them to invest in alternative technology would benefit every one.
Cheers, Billy.

notice how when this came out, neither the Australian or the American EPA grounded all the VW's that were were emitting above the standard.

Originally Posted by Eevo

notice how when this came out, neither the Australian or the American EPA grounded all the VW's that were were emitting above the standard.

Now that would give the lawyers a field day

Just imagine grounding millions of cars.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

I don't wish to be dismissive of the experts or the facts that they have laboured to present us, but I will be 62 in a couple of weeks and I have spent my entire life breathing the most polluted air that Australia has to offer, that is, the air of inner western Sydney. Quite stupidly I have spent a lot of that time smoking as well.
I don't claim to have suffered no damage from that but I do lead a normal, active and happy life.
Cheers, Billy.

Quote: " the most polluted air that Australia has to offer,"
I'm afraid Lilyfield (i.e. Sydney) is only 4th on the list, Launceston, Tas. has that dubious title, closely followed by Tuggeranong, ACT, then Melbourne, then Sydney, in all of these locations Domestic Wood Heaters are the largest Source of air polluting deadly Carcinogenic PM2.5 from their emissions of Woodsmoke.
Check NPI, though they don't measure anything smaller than PM10, Regards Frank.