How Serious was the Volkswagen Scandal

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In “How Serious was the Volkswagen Scandal?”, Jacob Skrovan brings to light the exploitation of diesel fuel by volkswagen engineers. Skovran develops this piece by  giving background information on engineers. He uses this scandal to acknowledge how this company managed to get people to buy a product that was malfunctioning. The purpose of this essay is to educate readers of what goes on behind the scenes. The intended audience are manufacturers and drivers.
As I read “How Serious Was the Volkswagen Scandal?”, I thought of the ride in Epcot called “Test Track”. In “Test Track” one must design a car and compare their design to others. The cars are tested through scenarios involving capability, power, efficiency, and responsiveness. The Volkswagen company cheated the system in an unfair way. I connected this story to “Test Track” because I have always wanted my car design to score the highest score out of my family, and Volkswagen obviously wanted the same in the car industry. While I believe in trying to be the best of the best, I feel that the Volkswagen company should not have lied about their tests.

In Skovran’s essay he uses many sources to show how the emissions being released from Volkswagen automobiles was harming the environment.  He also cites many sources that are very reliable and are in a sense experts in the field of pollution.  He uses the research from these sources to state how harmful diesel is towards the environment compared to gasoline.  “Diesel engines produce more pollutants than gasoline engines (European Environment Agency 34).  This shows how the Volkswagen automobiles were harming the environment.  Another example is when he states how this scandal could have killed thousands of people in the long run.  “In 2012 , it was estimated that 72000 people died premature deaths as a result of long term exposure to NO in the 28 countries making up the European Union (European Environment Agency 11).  This states that if the scandal was never exposed then in the long run many lives would have been lost.  The readers after reading this would have been furious at the company because they had the potential to take away many lives.   

Works Cited
Skovran, Jacob. How Serious Was the Volkswagen Scandal. Connections: Guide to First-Year Writing, 2014. pp. 202-07.

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