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It’s actually worse than that - they set goals and then manufacturers started lying to meet those goals, which told the regulators that those goals were attainable and so they set new goals. The entire notion of clean diesel is a farce and has been built on lies from the outset.

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It's a typical corporate effect. Management, with no expertise or even competency, creates absurd schedules and goals and thinks that somehow, just by fiat and edict, they can bend physics and make it so.

Are we talking about the auto manufacturers or the government here?

Both parties set unattainable targets.

No, some market participants did so.

However, customers and regulators had different requirements so meeting both was difficult without cheating.

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