That guy is toast. His golden parachute has turned into something else.
Which ancient alien sent you their recordings, or is that the currently "agreed upon" levels.
Another big oil conspiracy no doubt.
No but them raising taxes puts their re-election into jeopardy.
Now it all makes sense. When the Feds have infinite taxpayer dollars to hand out to their cronies, the cronies have infinite incentive to cheat.
One party wants to cut the size of government so the number of regulators drops each year so the number of inspections drops. Note the rise of contaminated food and pharmaceutical recalls. Most food processors see usda inspectors about one-tenth as often as they did in the past. Most inspectors only have time for a documentation check and no tour of the production area.
The emissions tests were an attempt to verify. But on the face of it, even an emissions test is at best only a proxy for what happens out on the road. Testing for a proxy of what you care about (emissions in a standardized garage environment), instead of that thing itself (real-world emissions out on the road), is always vulnerable to distortions. You could say the same thing about standardized school testing, since it causes teaching-to-the-test. VW has shown that outright fraud is one more reason to avoid proxy testing.
Real-world testing is frought with even more variability! Just think of all the different possible environmental conditions, gas mixtures/impurities, altitude, temperature, humidity, etc...
