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sl8

(13,736 posts) Tue Sep 15, 2020, 06:46 AM Sep 2020

Daimler to pay $1.5 billion in emissions cheating settlement with the US

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/business/daimler-diesel-emissions-cheating-settlement/index.html

Daimler to pay $1.5 billion in emissions cheating settlement with the US
By Peter Valdes-Dapena and Christina Carrega, CNN

Updated 6:21 PM ET, Mon September 14, 2020

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Daimler to pay $1.5 billion in emissions cheating settlement with the US (Original Post) sl8 Sep 2020 OP

Good Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #1

That's cheap -- it's good business to lie and cheat Ponietz Sep 2020 #2

Good Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 #3

Sherman A1

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1. Good

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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 06:47 AM

Sep 2020

Ponietz

(2,960 posts)

2. That's cheap -- it's good business to lie and cheat

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Sep 15, 2020, 07:45 AM

Sep 2020

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Daimler survives, ‘trim and fit’, while species that thrived for MILLIONS OF YEARS go extinct. They were just following VW’s market strategy. Besides, what’s the atmosphere (or all these dead birds) to do with $1.5 billion dollars?

[link:https://us.cnn.com/2020/09/14/us/new-mexico-birds-died-migration-trnd/index.html|

We live in a horror story. Humanity is Doctor Frankenstein and the inchoate corporate being is his monster run amok.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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3. Good

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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 01:25 PM

Sep 2020

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