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the host expert on our auto expert
dot COM's website. A number of

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things that affect your ability to buy
a car, to run a car.

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A couple of things regarding the auto
workers strike. Looks like it's getting heavier

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and worse. What's the scuttle butt
on this as to when there will be

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some result? I think you said
to us last week that the auto the

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auto manufacturers don't care because they got
a ninety day supply of cars. So

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is that still the prevailing thinking.
Yeah, And I think the cars that

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they have sitting on dealer lots,
Doug, are the cars that they want

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to get rid of, and so
they're more than happy for people to choose

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what they don't want. You know, again, again the classic situation every

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time we talk, it's the buyer
that suffers every time. Right, they're

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holding out. Everybody's holding out,
and one or the other could push really

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hard and probably get this resolve,
but they're quite comfortable where they're at.

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Isn't that interesting? I put you
on you went to Korea this week,

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a close friend of mine. I
put the two of you together. You

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didn't get together. As it turned
out, one of the things that was

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on his mind when he went over
there as the number of electric vehicles that

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they're pushing on the dealers and something
that he'd done. Did I tell you

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this? Last week? He's got
twenty nine dealerships, and he had four

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or five of the stores. They
had more electric vehicles than they you know,

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because the companies just keep sending them
to them and they're not selling here.

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So he put them on. He
put six cars from six dealerships on

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six trucks and sent them to California
to be sold out there. They made

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a deal with some dealers out there
because the electric cars are selling out there.

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They're not selling here. But I
thought that was kind of interesting.

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They just put them on a bunch
of drugs in Centermc, California. Here

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you sell them. Yeah, It's
it's super interesting how certain parts of the

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country are really interested in certain cars
and other parts of the country are not.

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You know, they sell the big
luxury SUVs everywhere but New York.

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And you would think that all the
limo services they would, but no,

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no, New York. The negotiations
with the auto workers, as we were

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talking, seems to be in part
I focus on electric vehicles and also the

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concerns about AI. They have proposed
a what forty percent increase the average worker

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by the way, now, for
those of you who don't know, the

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plant wages average thirty two dollars an
hour, so yeah, and some making

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like seventy bucks an hour. Some
work a lot less than that. The

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difficulty, the difficulty is with electric
cars is they just they take very few

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people to put together a lot of
stuff like the battery. There's not so

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many moving parts. Doug and the
unions worried that they're going to end up

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with less people in the factories,
which means less members, which means they

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have a less of a work bring
out on strike. So there's sort of

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valid concerns, but you can't stop
things moving forward, whether they're moving forward

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in the right way or the wrong
way. That ends up, you know,

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the consumers always wins. So let's
see what happens twenty years. Let's

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have this discussion again. All right, so let's talk about what will happen.

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As has happened during COVID, the
used car market got really hot and

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the prices of used cars sort of
varied. They're going up and down now

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over much of our country. And
the closer apparently you get to Canada,

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the better the deal. Why would
that be, Well, a lot of

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those dealers on the Canadian border actually
have access to cars to come over the

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border, and it's good. Sometimes
it's not others. I brought a vehicle

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into the United States from Canada,
and of course they favor kilometers an hour.

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The odometers in kilometers an hour,
so you have to change now you

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have to be aware of that when
you drive it. But these cars are

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interchangeable a lot of times. With
the new electronic dashes, you can actually

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just hit a button and move it
from miles and a half kilometers an hour

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or vice versa. The older cars, you know, they where they have

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physical odometers, you can't do that
so much. But if you need live

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near Canada, cars are actually cheaper. So Michigan, you know, anywhere

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along the border cars are cheaper because
they're coming in from Canada, and Canada

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has a whole different ecosystem when it
comes to automotive sales. Yeah, you

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know, I blew my mind this
week on rr or expert dot com the

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story about buying engines from Walmart.
I can't begin. I mean, it's

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like buying them from ebon, eBay
or Amazon. I guess. Then you

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buy the engine, Okay, then
ready you do well? I mean,

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I mean if you're if you're savvy
enough to install it yourself. Great.

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But the funny thing is Walmart has
always sold very strange stuff, and being

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able to buy a create engine from
Walmart and then use their returns policy seems

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strange and you can't actually do that
anywhere else in the automotive industry. It's

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just funny. You can sit there
with them, buy a twenty five thousand

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dollars engine like anything. Yeah,
and then you take the piece of the

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old one and sent it back.
But you can buy an engine and a

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transmission from Walmart. My god,
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

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all right, Well it's always a
story to be told here, Nick Miles,

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fabulous expert our autoexpert dot com.
What a great website. Happy to

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have you here on the program.
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and Jay Kirshner. Is made possible
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