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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

All Hail VW -- Heroic Resistants Against The Green Tyranny!

From Breitbart's Big Government:
Who’d want to buy a VW right now?

Me, for one. The VW I currently drive is, by some margin, the most exciting car I’ve ever owned.

It’s a Golf Four-Motion which I picked up for a song on Ebay. From the outside it looks deceptively ordinary: just the standard, boxy Golf body with no distinguishing marks or features to tell you how secretly evil it is. But underneath the bonnet is a ludicrously inappropriate 2.8 litre V6 engine. On a Golf. Imagine!
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Which is the real reason, I suspect, that they ended up being targeted by the green Gestapo, in the form of the Environmental Protection Agency, which has caught VW out doctoring their emissions tests to make their cars look greener than they actually are. (Invented by Hitler; destroyed by the green Gestapo. Oh the irony!)
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And the reason for this is that, unlike most of its craven, corporatist sell-out competitors, VW was brave enough to try to fight against the technologically unfeasible, economically untenable emissions targets being imposed on it by the green commissars of the European Union.
“…The 95 g/km Long-Term-Target for 2020 is the result of a political decision taken last year. It is not based on sound impact assessment nor on a realistic appreciation of the costs and technical progress necessary to meet the goal within the timescale…” — Volkswagen 2010
VW, in other words, was making a stand for its consumers and – just as importantly – its shareholders against a bunch of unelected ideologues who don’t give a stuff for free markets or the bottom line.
That's a different take than I would take, but BooYah!

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