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Subject:Re: VW
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:43:14 -0500

Seems like the low hanging fruit was picked a while back.  But the clean up is far from complete.

---- Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Seems like they're going after the low-hanging fruit.
> On Sep 23, 2015 6:06 PM, "george jannini" <georgejoann@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The agenda is clean air.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:59 PM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well the answer to that is the media:) and maybe an agenda or two from
> > > others...
> > >
> > > we all have agendas no?
> > >
> > > t.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Evidently, someone else did find it first and it has been done before.
> > > One
> > > > report on the engineer guy in West Virginia whose crew uncovered this
> > VW
> > > > problem also found a precedent in the late '90s with big diesel trucks
> > > with
> > > > Cummins and Cat engines. And...the VW thing has been known for 18
> > months,
> > > > so why is it causing a freakout now? This is not the first instance of
> > > > diesel "defeat devices," as they're called.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/news/west-...ves-david-vws-goliath-191619480--finance.html
> > > >
> > > > The morons in the by-passed diesel pickups with the "Screw your Prius!"
> > > > stickers in the back windows are no better and should be held
> > accountable
> > > > just as we hope VW and any other violating manufacturers will be.
> > > > Stephen
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >

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David McNeely