re: #165 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Diesels are far from headed toward extinction. Anything that can be made to run when oil hits $1000 a barrel will be relevant in its time.

Oh, I know light passenger diesels aren’t going away, but, largely in part to VW’s efforts, diesel passenger cars in the US were having a resurgence in popularity and we were starting to see more manufacturers make a diesel option available to more of their product lines than has been in a long time.

Now, VW has tainted all of that; they’ve already started setting aside BILLIONS of dollars aside ($7-8 billion for this quarter alone) and may be in for a shitload of not only more investigations and action from regulatory agencies worldwide over this (last I saw, Germany, France, and South Korea’s environmental agencies are among the latest to be looking into VW’s actions, but they certainly aren’t going to be the last), but possible class-action suits from hoodwinked customers.

If VW survives this, it’ll be a miracle.