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Is diesel on the brink of having its old reputation of being a fuel better used in heavy equipment? If so, should we thank Volkswagen for getting caught or the EPA for pushing the rules too hard?
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TAKE POLL Who is worse: VW or the EPA?
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I'm very curious to see how this all plays out. The more I read about how they caught them, how it worked, etc.. the more I am wondering if other OEMs wouldn't have something similar in their setups. I know that there are other legal ways to cheat the system (ie: my Subaru has an air pump that just pumps in air to dillute the toxins - shouldn't actually reduce the total number of toxins, just reduces the parts per million. My motorcycle has a very similar PAIR system that just adds air to the exhaust before it passes the sensor).
I went to my non-automotive friends and almost every single one of them said, "Yeah, I saw something about Volkswagen in the news but I don't know what it was about". If I explained it to them most of them really didn't care about the EPA part or the emissions part at all, they only seem to care that a big corporation cheated and thought they would get away with it.
I went to my non-automotive friends and almost every single one of them said, "Yeah, I saw something about Volkswagen in the news but I don't know what it was about". If I explained it to them most of them really didn't care about the EPA part or the emissions part at all, they only seem to care that a big corporation cheated and thought they would get away with it.
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- This thread discusses whether Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal or the EPA's strict emissions regulations bear more responsibility for diesel's declining reputation, with participants questioning whether the EPA's standards are unreasonably stringent and whether other manufacturers use similarly questionable (though legal) emissions workarounds.
- The core tension centers on whether regulators are pushing fuel efficiency and emissions standards too hard, forcing manufacturers into creative compliance methods, versus holding the industry accountable for honest adherence to environmental rules.
This thread discusses whether Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal or the EPA's strict emissions regulations bear more responsibility for diesel's declining reputation, with participants questioning whether the EPA's standards are unreasonably stringent and whether other manufacturers use similarly questionable (though legal) emissions workarounds. The core tension centers on whether regulators are pushing fuel efficiency and emissions standards too hard, forcing manufacturers into creative compliance methods, versus holding the industry accountable for honest adherence to environmental rules.
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