VW deserves this. Hopefully this penalty will discourage other automakers from cheating in this way. It would also be nice if Mr. Winterkorn and the executive

VW deserves this. Hopefully this penalty will discourage other automakers from cheating in this way. It would also be nice if Mr. Winterkorn and the executives who were complicit in this were prosecuted. I wonder how well they have covered their tracks. I am glad to see there will be some money going to the owners of the affected diesels. A lot of these people bought the cars because they were marketed as more environmentally friendly. Then, they were left with an embarrassing car with near-zero resale value once the revelations came out. I feel like the US has a bizarrely inconsistent attitude towards air pollution. The standards for NOx emissions for diesel construction equipment and ships are almost non-existent. If VW's actions are reprehensible, surely the lawmakers who created such a bizarrely fragmented regulatory regime are also to blame. http://www.greenhoustontx.gov/reports/closingdieseldivide.pdf http://www.greenhoustontx.gov/reports/closingdieseldivide.pd...