Volkswagen - What's got into you???

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Originally Posted by BeamOn

Thank you for the link, quite interesting and informative. As usual there is never a catch all technology for prevention or cleanup with emissions. Only long term solution is electric cars.

Let us take your argument to an end point. Assume cars could get infinite fuel mileage and have zero emissions. What would people do with that technology? Would they pave over everything?

Detroit experimented with improving fuel economy. Consumers simply took the savings and moved further into the suburbs. And paved their way there.

There is a bigger issue at hand IMO, and it is legislative. Automotive engineering has tried and failed at reining us in.