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can I prosecute ex parte the rest of the taxpayers and citizens and asthmatics the administrators supposed to have been in charge of ensuring compliance with emissions standards for failing so incredibly to do their jobs?

or is there no responsibility held by whoever we place in office responsible for seeing our futures aren't squandered?

how is it possible to ignore that obligation and duty when we've only just started to admit that we have to act against such universal polluting?

or has the last encumbant of 2000 Pensylvania Av. just pulled off the brilliant trick of assuming all the blame for the failure of government future and past as well?

(brit with American family and too embarrassed to speak of our politicians presently)




I’m not sure if the downvotes here are because of your Trump allusions or not, but you do raise a pretty important point.

Where was the oversight? How was it that an open secret of this magnitude didn’t incur the wrath of environmental agencies in the countries affected? Is it possible that no-one outside of the industry knew about this and that everyone in the industry, even in competing firms, just kept this secret for years without anything leaking out?

It doesn’t seem plausible that this wasn’t known about and ignored by regulators in at least some regions.


I agree, the people enforcing these laws are just as negligent. Why did the let the manufactures anywhere near the testing process.

I would like to think that now, after the scandal, they are selecting and testing cars that have recently been sold. The cars that are actually being driven around.




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