Fresno Bee: The chief executive has resigned, the stock price has tanked, the credit rating has dropped, and the fines and class-action lawsuits are beginning. Not quite two months after the news that Volkswagen had been cheating for years on emission tests for its diesels, consumers are beginning to extract their pound of flesh.
Let the penance begin. It's no exaggeration to say the world as we know it depends on the ratcheting down of greenhouse gases. Climate change has wrought havoc, and the need to stop...