AP analysis: VW evasion likely led to dozens of deaths
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Volkswagen's pollution-control chicanery has not just been victimless tinkering, killing between five and 20 people in the United States annually in recent years, according to an Associated Press statistical and computer analysis.
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The software that the company admitted using to get around government emissions limits allowed VWs to spew enough pollution to cause somewhere between 16 and 94 deaths over seven years, with the annual count increasing more recently as more of the diesels were on the road. The total cost has been well over $100 million.
That's just in the United States. It's likely far deadlier and costlier in Europe, where more VW diesels were sold, engineers said. Scientists and experts said the death toll in Europe could be as high as hundreds each year, though they caution that it is hard to take American health and air quality computer models and translate them to a more densely populated Europe.
"Statistically, we can't point out who died because of this policy, but some people have died or likely died as a result of this," said Carnegie Mellon environmental engineer professor Peter Adams. He calculates the cost of air pollution with a sophisticated computer model that he and the AP used in its analysis.
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There was some discussion on this here when VW's scandal first broke, with some calling VW murderers and others saying it wasn't that bad.
This adds some clarity to that debate.
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Good thing here in America we don't believe in climate change and have some states forbidding discussion of it. Cuz lefty propaganda kills people. Unlike oil, fracked water, coal, farting cows, and methane-making wasted food.
