Timeline for Can I sue Volkswagen for damage to my health?
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| Mar 22, 2018 at 15:05 | comment | added | Crowley | Supporting @JPhi1618, VW breaked the emissions limit for their cars 40x. Take in account what particullar limit was overshot, I suppose Euro IV. Why don't you blame every carmaker ever building cars fulfilling Euro III, Euro II, Euro I or even not fulfilling that. And have you thought of what does a coal powerplant do to your lungs every single breath? | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 9:37 | vote | accept | user | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 at 6:36 | comment | added | Scott | In a way, you already have. The company has set aside money to pay the applicable fines for breaching these laws, which goes to the government, which pays for public services, or allows reduced taxes. Same with the BP oil spill, and pretty much any other similar scenario. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 21:46 | history | edited | jimsug | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Just in case people don't know what VW means - we have the space to spell it out :)
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| Sep 28, 2015 at 20:38 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 19:45 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | Also keep in mind that the "legal limit" for these pollutants is a very small number, so when they throw around terms like 40x the limit, we're still talking about a very low number. The U.S. limit is 0.07 grams/mi, so 40x that is 2.8g/mi (and 40x is the worst case, not constant rate). A large diesel like a school bus or city bus can output a constant 15g/mi. Construction equipment is even less regulated than that! The fact that VW cheated is a very bad thing, but it's not a health concern. Breathing the exhaust from your lawn mower is far worse. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | YviDe | "40x the legal limit" is only applicable to the US. The UK has different emission limits (between two and four times as high depending on when the car was built) | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | reirab | "it seems that VW has likely contributed to the decline in my health in some way" No, that seems extremely unlikely. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 12:48 | answer | added | gracey209 | timeline score: 24 | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 12:28 | history | asked | user | CC BY-SA 3.0 |