All right and joining us now. It's always a pleasure to talk to Eric
Peters as Eric Peters autos dot com a lot of great articles about liberty,
about politics, and also about cars and mobility, because that is a big
part of our liberty, is that mobility, and so he covers that and
he does actual real car reviews. I mean not just the hypercars it costs
millions and millions of dollars, but real cars that are out there, and
so it's always a pleasure to have Eric on. Thank you for joining us,
Eric, Oh, thank you, David. I'd like to know the
first before we get going, have you got your golden shoes on? I
passed on that. I did a thing. I came in with golden slippers,
you know, while they were showing the things, you know, the
old the old miners stune and yeah, I thought you liked that, and
that's something you know next maybe you know, when he mandates masks again,
we can all make them out of gold. I'm sure that info Wars will
probably do that and sell it. Surprised, Okay, so we had,
like I called it yesterday stupor Tuesday. You had to be in a stupor
to show up to vote. When this is a North Korean style election,
you got one person on the ballot essentially. You know, Nicky Haley was
there. She doesn't even want to show her face now she's embarsed herself so
badly with all this stuff. It was so good in that. I mean,
you know, I find Nicki Haley to be almost as repellent as the
Orange Man. So it was already happy to see her exit stage left.
That's right. Oh, I was very concerned when she jumped into the race
that she is a dangerous demagogue. I thought it was really funny when she
was trying to, you know, endear herself to the people in New Hampshire,
she started criticizing the people in South Carolina as a bunch of knuckle dragging
racist who had elected her twice to governorship. And I thought, next,
the next one she's got to do, and she's got to go to these
people she just accused of being a backward racist. The fascinating thing about Haley
to me is that, you know, sensibly we are supposed to have representatives
in our democracy, right, meaning you know, essensibly people who have been
approved of by at least a putative majority of the voters. Well, this
woman has been repudiated by by just astounding the pseudonomous margins of contempt, and
she won't get the hint. You know until today, you know, we
don't want you. Nobody wants you literally go away. That she has the
arrogance in the infrontary to countermand to clearly express will of the people and say
no, no, you're gonna have me regardless. I'm gonna just I'm gonna
I'm going to force myself upon you because you know I'm the right person for
the job. Well, you know, she's got all these donors. And
I remember when I was working with the Libertarian Party, the first thing they
would ask, if you've got an interview with some reporter, so what is
your campaign budget? Now? There was how much money you're going to spend
advertising with us? Right? And so she's got lots of money to throw
at people. So that makes her a legitimate candidate because she's already been bought.
Uh, yes, exactly. I called her as a new grade.
Somebody came up with this. I wish I could remember who it was.
It was during the pandemic air fakers quotes when they said, you know,
we really ought to have some kind of a law regulation that requires people like
Fauci and people like Haley to do kind of like the NASCAR drivers do,
and we're the patches of their sponsors on chests. Yeah, they'd have to
get bigger suits. I think. Yeah. I called her Nooki Haley because
you never saw like Lindsay Graham, she never saw worship And like, what
is it about South Carolina? I have asked that question. I've had people
in South Carolina respond and say, you know, it's the party. It's
not the rank and file Republicans in South Carolina. We don't like these people
anymore than you do. It's the party that's got control of it. And
you know that's the real issue, isn't it with our elections when everybody was
complaining about what Trump did in terms of locking everybody down and said, Okay,
now you're going to vote by mail, and then he had the audacity
to complain about the results that he got. You know, we all knew
that. But I said, if you want to talk about election corruption,
talk about ballot access, you know, because that's where the corruption begins.
Right there. They're going to say, nobody gets on the ballot unless they
are part of these two parties, and then they can control very easily within
their party who gets on the ballot. So they make sure that it's only
going to be people who are the establishment, and that's what we're always going
to have as long as we've got that duopoly running all of that stuff.
But of course, what's changed in all of that this time around is the
fact that the Democrats are no longer happy with a duopoly. They've got to
have a monopoly, and so they want to get the Orange man off the
ballot. And now everybody has discovered ballot access. What a surprise. But
they're not talking about doing any reform for anybody other than Trump, are they.
No. And it's necessary to maintain the illusion of consent. They had
elections in the Soviet Union under Stalin because again they had to create this fiction
that somehow he had been approved of by the majority of the people in the
Soviet Union. So in number of other countries they require people to vote.
Why is that? Why would they require people to vote, because it's they
require the illusion of consent. And that's why, you know, we look
at Super two and they've got for Biden or he's got no opposition at all.
They made sure in Florida, you know that they kicked off any of
the people who are going to run against him, and the DNC and Florida
said no, we're only going to have Biden, not and the political party
has the power to do that kind of stuff. And so we really do
have a Stalin esque election. And you've got all CNN and Fox News are
all treating this as if there was some kind of a serious election. There's
no debates, there's no discussion about issues. It's simply about a personalities and
it's about law fair and all the rest of this stuff nothing at all about
issues, and there's never none of the above. Yes, you know,
if we had that option in the election, then we would have elections because
then a majority of people could say, you know, both of these two
candidates, that the major parties are despicable and I want nothing to do with
either of them. So none of the above, and if seventy or even
sixty percent of the people had checked none of the above, okay, well
we have to somehow figure something else out and at least get less loathsome candidates
out there that could perhaps at least get a degree of approval from the bulk
of the people. But in our democracy, we can't have that option game.
We no. Well, there was an uncommitted in one of these recent
ones, and that got a substantial number of votes. And I guess when
people saw uncommitted on there, I guess they thought that was a description of
all the candidates. They aren't committed to anything except to themselves, you know,
they don't have any commitments, no principles, nothing, you know.
It's we were talking a little bit about my article on the subject of voting.
It's such a tough nut, you know, for me, as as
I like to think of principal libertarian, I understand and I have great sympathy
for the argument that voting in any context is almost as it's kind of a
dirty act. You know, you're endorsing this system in a way, right,
helping to legitimize it. But then I think to myself, you know,
we're all under duress. It's not as though we have free choice.
It's not as though we can say, you know, I want nothing to
do with this and have that vote count in a meaningful sense. So is
it wrong to use the voter? See the vote? I'll put it that
way as a kind of a measure, you know, in the sense,
if I vote for more freedom to the extent that that's possible, it countermands
the vote of the neighbor down the street who wants less freedom from me.
And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. And I also don't think
it's necessarily incongruent with continuing to advocate for the ideal for the best. You
know, you hope for the best, you want the best, you never
cease advocating for the best. But at the same time, you do what
you can to make things a little bit better. And that might make me
a libertarian apposite in this case, I don't know. I think it's firmly
cemented on the point, but you know, I just I'm exasperated by it.
I don't know what to do. So it seems to me that doing
both is not necessarily an unreasonable thing. Well, you know, what I've
been trying to tell people is forget about Washington, and I say forget about
the presidency. I say forget about Senate and Congress, but pay very much
attention, a great deal of attention to who's running locally in at the state
level. Because you can have a lot more effect there, and you know,
Soros has been doing that by pouring money into state attorney general races,
pouring a lot of money into local district attorney races. And look at how
he has been able to affect change in California. Destroying it of course,
but that's his purpose. You know, Soros is about chaos and so you
know, but he's been very effective at that. And Elon Musk said,
you have to understand that's really genius because you're going to have so much more
effect at the local level. First of all, you're one of you know,
maybe even just a few hundred people who vote in some aspect of it,
as opposed to one of hundreds of millions of people who may vote in
an election. And you know, so anything that you do, whether it's
your vote, or whether it's working for a candidate, or whether it is
you know, supporting a candidate financially or something, any of that is going
to have a lot more effect. And as we saw in twenty twenty,
these people have a lot more effect on your life even than the governor or
the president or certainly the Congress, because they can make things a lot better
or even a lot worse depending on that. So I think there's a real
strong case to be made still for being involved in local elections. Maybe you
know, in your local elections still don't have a good candidate, but you've
got a better chance of trying to get somebody in there as a good local
candidate for local election than you do off of the state or especially off of
the federal And yet we have all of our attention is upside down, and
it's that way because the national press has pushed us to do that. The
government has pushed us do that because they know that that is futile. Really,
you know, that whole boat voting thing is futile. And you know
when we talk about voting, going back to my experience with the Libertarian Party,
that was always what we did. We always focused and spend all our
time trying to get ballot access, and then they wouldn't let us into the
debates, even after we jump through extra hoops. But they were expert at
getting on the ballot. And so now you've got RFK Junior who's looking at
this and saying, well, you know, these people, they know how
to get on the ballot. That's thing they can accomplish. Maybe I can
get a spot on the ball. What do you think about that? What
do you think about RFK Junior running as a as a libertarian candidate? Well,
let's let's I guess I won't talk about two things. First, I
think your initial point is very well said, and we'll put You know,
the left understands that they have been working at the local level and from the
local level up in the past fifty years. You know, the termites burrowing
into a tree and people haven't noticed it until boom, all of a sudden.
It seems that the authoritarian left controls the entire country and everything. You
know, so certainly we can take a page from their playbook and do the
same thing. You know, as you say, in your local community,
not only are the numbers smaller, but you know these people. You know,
you will never know your congressman or your senator, let alone the president.
You know, this might be the guy who lives down the road,
and you might have known this guy for the last twenty years. So you
can approach that person and talk to them, and there's that human connection that
it simply doesn't exist when we're talking about national level politics. So there's that
point as far as our f K Junior. You know, aspects of RFK
Junior that I don't like, but there are many aspects of him that I
do like, chief of which he seems to be a sane person. He
seems to be a sane, intelligent person, a person that you can have
a conversation with. You know, I think he's taken a number of stands
that are very positive, particularly with regard to the menacing influence of big corporations
and particularly of these pharmaceutical corporations over the government, over the country. And
yeah, by any hooker crook, I'd like to see him get on the
ballot however he can do. It would be great, obviously, and interestingly
to me, the Democrat Party has repudiated the scion of the Kennedy family of
all people, you know, they despise him, and they despise him because
he's kind of an honest leftist, you know, in that he actually does
believe in free speech, He actually does believe in the traditional core Democrat liberal
ideas of the sixties, and that kind of makes him a right winger by
today's standards. Yeah, you know, when he first announced, I said,
well, I really like what he has had had to say about the
COVID vaccine and some of the other things like that, but he has made
it clear that he and his family are all vaccinated, and you know,
tried to carve this out and I think is a little bit too clever by
half, and it kind of, you know, eroded my trust of what
he was actually saying by saying, well, I just want to have you
know, clean vaccines and say vaccines. I'm not against vaccines and all the
rest of the stuff. I am against vaccines, and you know, for
all of these reasons. And I would have thought that he would say that.
But the other thing that bothered me was the fact that you know,
he has always been a die hard climate mcguffin guy. Yes, and you
know the comment that he made, and nobody called him on it for the
longest time, and he wouldn't come on my show even to talk about his
book, which the one that he did on Fauncy I thought was good because
it was you know, he talked in his towards the end of the end
of the book, he talked about dark Winter and all this stuff that laid
the foundation where they practiced. It wasn't just event to A one. He
goes back to Dark Winter two months before nine to eleven, so this is
something that was rehearsed. He talked about all the CIA connections that Fauci had
and all the rest of the stuff. I thought it was very good.
I wanted to talk to him about that, but he you know that we
booked it and then he canceled at the last minute, so you know,
I don't know. He doesn't like me, and that's not why I'm pulling
back from it. I when he started to run, I wanted to ask
him, you know, with all the censorship stuff that he had, He's
had some great things to say about censorship and how bad it is, and
yet he was calling for censorship when he said that they needed to arrest and
jail the people who were skeptics of this climate change agenda. Well he did
walk that back, but I remember him saying that, yeah, and when
he walked it back, he gave essentially a lie. You know, in
terms of walking it back. What he said was, I was talking about
the corporation. No, you don't lock up a corporation and you don't give
it three hots and a cot. You're talking about the people, you know,
and nobody pushed him on that, but you know it really he did
go on to say, I would give the corporations a death sentence. Now
I agree that we have these corporations that are doing things like this, like
you know, the banks, like JP Morgan that's been convicted so many times,
or HSBC that's got this long criminal conviction thing. They had to be
given a death sentence, but instead they're declared to be too big to jail.
So I don't have a problem with giving corporations a death sentence, but
I do have a problem with the fact that he won't really walk that back.
It would have been a useful and honest thing for him to say.
You know, I used to think that we ought to censor our opponents,
but now since it's happened to me, I don't support that anymore because I've
learned from it. Nobody wants to admit to a mistake anymore, no,
And I think also people are really thirsty, and that they're desperate for somebody
who's at least kind of an operational human being, you know, as opposed
to we've literally got this this this senile old grifter who can barely barely follow
with teleprompter are right on the money end, and then you've got this this
sloganeering demagogue on the other side, and their conversation operates at the level of
a not particularly bright eight year old if that. And so I think anybody
who just wants to have somebody who can complete a sentence, let alone a
paragraph that seems intelligible, you know, finds RFK mentally appealing despite all of
these issues that he has. And so there will fight like the devil to
keep him out of the debates. Even if he gets on with the Libertarian
Party, and they're pretty good at getting on the ballot in all fifty states.
Even if he gets on with him, they will keep him out of
the debates. And as I said, you know, from the very beginning,
I said, it'll be interesting. I said, I don't support him,
but it'll be It would be great to have him in the debates because
we could finally have somebody talking about issues. If you've got even just the
dynamics you know, of having Eric, of having three different candidates up there,
then you can't do this thing. Well, this guy is evil and
I'm you know, not as bad as he is. And and the fact
that he wants to talk about issues that would completely change the dynamics. Is
one of the reasons why they'll do anything they can to keep him out of
the debates. They will not allow that. The debates have been run for
so long by the two parties and they're not going to open them up.
So we're not really going to have the discussion of the issues. But it
is an interesting, interesting idea. You got another article anticipating government. Tell
us a little bit about that. What do you anticipate government doing? And
yeah, well, you know, I've been involved in the car business now
for writing about the car industry and motoring and all of that for more than
thirty years, so I've acquired some perspective over that time. And when I
first began covering the industry back in the nineties. At that time, the
car industry was still kind of oppositionally defiant toward the regulatory apparat you know,
when the government would come out with a proposed regulation, and the good example
of this being the original airbag mandate. When that first came out and I
was privy to this, you know, I was involved in this at the
time in the sense that I covered it and I knew some of the people
who were involved in it. The major car companies sent their engineers to go
speak with the regulators, admits it, and they told them, look,
you know, these airbags that you're expecting us to put in these cars are
potentially dangerous. They're going to hurt older people, they're going to hurt children.
Here's why. And it presented them with all the data and all the
facts. Didn't matter. The government went ahead and mandated it anyway. And
so I think the lesson that they took from that is that it's better to
go along and get along. And so ever since that time, not only
have they ceased fighting anything the regulatory apparat comes out with, they anticipate regulations
now. And a good way to understand that is look at the new car
market right now. We hear about Joe Biden's requirement that comes into effect in
twenty twenty six, about the kill switch and the technology that's going to be
necessary to make that happen. Almost all the cars already have that technology well
before the mandate came down from the federal government. And why is that Because
the auto industry anticipated it and they want to profit from it. They figure,
well, you know this is going to happen. Let's get ahead of
it. Let's just go ahead and put it in the cars. We'll charge
people for it, and potentially we can make money down the road in one
way or another via a system. So now they've become even worse than the
government in a sense, and that they're looking around for all the ways that
they can come up with things that they know the regulatory apparat will like that
they can then force you and I to pay for if we want to have
a new car. Oh yeah, And it's very much like the ESG stuff,
right. These people want to not only do they want to anticipate it
from a financial standpoint, but they know that they want to team up with
the government. And that's one of the key things I think. You know,
when we look at Reason and Cato Institute, when they're looking at censorship.
For example, when they were covering this last week Eric, they had
arguments both Florida and Texas had put in some restrictions for social media companies about
censorship, and the way Reason looked at it, they're still back to the
idea that, well, you can't censor these private companies. They said,
you know, there's this idea from libertarians that companies can do nothing wrong and
the government can do nothing right, just the opposite of what the left is
about, that government can do nothing wrong and companies can do nothing right.
But what both of them miss is the fact that they have merged together.
That's what you're talking about. The two of them have merged together. It
is a kind of fascism. We have this you know, crony carapitalism that's
running out there and esg you know, which is okay. So if we're
in the environment and for societal governance, we're all going to corporate you cooperate,
and we're going to run this stuff through from the corporations. I think
that's a large part of it. And as you've talked about, it's because
they want the concession. When they stop selling cars and they're selling mobility,
they want the government to give them, you know, make them one of
the approved rental ride places. Well, libertarians who defend the corporate privilege in
the context of free markets fascinates me because corporations are subgovernment. Yes, they're
really government chartered enterprises that are given special legal privileges that individuals don't have,
while at the same time also being imported the same protections legally that a human
individual would have. So it's a really silly argument in my view, that
you know, somehow these corporations are entitled to that kind of difference. And
I think it's less fascistic than Soviet what we're dealing with right now. You
know, the Soviet Union, you had these these these planned economies, you
had, you had the big state industries that operated in tandem with the state,
you know, to produce whatever they decided between the two of them was
going to be out there, whatever it was, irrespective of any demand.
This EV thing is an excellent case in point. There is no market for
these things, no significant market. There would be no evs except perhaps very
very small niche products, you know, literally a handful, maybe a few
hundred of them built in total, if it were not for this Soviet cooperation
between the regulatory state and the corporate state, you know, the corporations that
are in bed with this. And I'm getting a little bit of shat and
floyd a satisfaction out of the collapse of the EV market, such as I'm
enjoying these tremendously, you know, as the whole thing comes apart, and
I drew up parallel with what happened with these vaccines, that beautiful vaccines that
Trump gave us. It's following that same trajectory. You know, they pushed
them on people first, very aggressively, did it with a lot of dishonesty.
They know, they used terms that were specifically designed to mislead people.
They prevented people from knowing the facts, the truth. But you know,
inevitably the truth does come out, you know, and once the truth begins
to come out, after a while, it kind of takes on a sort
of kinetic energy into the critical mass moment where all of a sudden, it
just kind of people get it. This is a bad idea. I'm not
going to have anything to do with it. And that's why, for example,
has had to stop shipping the twenty twenty four Lightning It's electric f one
fifty because there are so many twenty twenty three Lightnings just sitting around on dealers
lots that they can't get rid of the things. It's why Nissan has had
to slash prices on it's ariyah ev. It's why all the other manufacturers are
flailing about crying to figure out, what are we going to do? We
hugged the tar baby. How do we get how do we get out of
the tar baby? As it braes? I love to Yeah, you call
a polestar polecat. And there's CEO out there was taunting the marketplace, saying
people are just afraid to change. It's like, we don't want your product.
Don't you get it? I mean, you know, it's like,
you know, I'm going to tell you what you need to buy, and
you need to go out there and buy it. And if you don't,
you're a scaredy cat. You know. It's like, oh really. I
got until back and forth on my site with somebody who took issue with an
article that I'd written about the EV's and said something to the effect about,
you know, you're defending obsolete technology, and you know I was able to
dive on that with both feet. Yeah, obsolete technology. Actually, it's
the EV that's the obsolete technology, and it was to clear it obsolete one
hundred years ago by the free market when we still had one, because one
hundred years ago, combustion engine cars proved themselves to be the superior alternative,
and that's why evs stopped being made one hundred years ago, and the only
reason they're being made now is because we no longer have a free market.
That's right. Yeah, everybody got all excited about that documentary. Whatever happened
to the electric car? Well, now you know I drove that. I
drove the GM EV one back in the ninth riving cars back then, so
you know I can I can give you expert testimony because I did it.
It's the same thing thirty years, you know, thirty years in the review
it was the same thing. It was limited range, high cost, and
all the hassles you know of having to plan your life around recharging this thing.
Nothing has significantly improved other than well they've managed to get more power into
the battery somehow, and you know that the electric motors are stronger than they
were. So that's why they constantly talk about how quick and you know,
speedy these things are, and you know the thing about that, But I
point out to EV people, you know, how long do you think it's
going to be if you're you know, if this thing does succeed and they
managed to make, you know, make the EV the dominant vehicle on the
road, do you think a point's going to come when all of a sudden
they're going to say, now, we can't allow these ludicrously speedy vehicles to
be loosed on the public roads. And then they're going to install speed limitters.
They're already talking about that. Oh yeah, all happened then is you'll
be driving around in your eighty thousand dollars EV that's limited to the same speed
that an eighty six UGO GV was capable of. I'm looking forward to that.
It'll be like the little golf cart that everybody was riding around in the
prisoner in the village, right, That's that's basically the mode of transportation.
And of course he's got the new roadster out. It's going to do zero
to sixty and one second. Uh. I don't know if my heart could
stand that kind of acceleration. But as what's the point of that, As
you point out, they're not gonna let people do that. There's speed bumps
and all the rest of this stuff, and the camera is everywhere, speed
cameras, speed bumps. They're not gonna allow that. Not only what's the
you know, what's the point of it? After a while, it's just
boring because it's all the same. There's no variety here. You know,
it's it's just okay, it's really quick, but whoop do you do?
You know? I put something up on the site this morning about this new
battery power charger that that Dodge just revealed the replacement for them EV eight power
charger and Challenger, and again it's it's it's just this kind of embarrassing confession
in that they're trying so hard to give people what they want by giving people
something that's different than what they want. This is it looks like a muscle
car. They call it a muscle car, and it even makes fake muscle
car sounds. They have some kind of a sound generating thing in it that
reproduces the sound of a beam engine and it gets better. It even shakes
and vibrates, you know, to give you the fake impression that you've got
an engine under it. And I'm thinking to myself, I mean, nobody
who wants a muscle car wants that. So what are they trying to do
here? Yeah? Yeah, I guess I could put a fake scoop in
it so you can have a shaker hood and all that. One of my
readers, and I wish I had thought it was, because it's absolutely brilliant
I had to like sit and laugh about it for a few minutes, and
they said, you know, what they should do is come up with the
sound of gas pumping at these electric fast chargers. You can listen to it
for like the gas the gas and air fingers quotes flowing from the forty five
minutes while you wait to get a partial charge. Well, at least it
now really does match the name. It's now become a charger because and you're
going to be spend spen most of your time at the charger with your charger
trying to get this thing if you even can during the winter. I mean,
that's the funny thing about it. Really now is literally a charger after
all these years. It's such a tragic thing. You know. Then they
have tried very hard, and it's a good looking car in my opinion.
You know, it's it's not that it's ugly, it's just that it's stupid.
What's the point of this? And you know, of course they've been
developing it for the last couple of years, and so in the interval the
truth has leaped out about EV's and you know, now people know, you
know, and this is going to in my opinion, this is this is
going to be it for Dodge. I think this is going to kill them.
Wow. Well, you know, you go back and you look at
the first ties and that he's got this one that does zero to sixty and
one second he says. Now, go back and you look at the first
roadster that they came out with. And I remember when top Gear and Jeremy
Clarkson out there, they tried to take it around the track, but immediately
it ran out of juice, you know, because they were really slamming the
thing, and you know, and and and he just went off on him.
They charged they came after him for slander, defamation or something like that,
didn't they by doy you you reminded you some that bears on that.
So guess how much this charge of the electric charger ways? Oh how much?
Just shive three tons before you get in, before you get in?
Yeah, and record today with the way, the general way to the public
that pays now. Interestingly enough, that's why it's not particularly fast. They
talk about how quick it is, but its top speed is only one hundred
and thirty four miles an hour, which is you know, that's kind of
pathetic. Last summer I got to drive the last of the Challenger Hellcats,
the Black Ghost Edition, I think would more than two hundred miles an hour.
And because it didn't work three tons as you know, you know,
the faster you go, you need more and more power to continue to push
through the wind and get that thing, get that thing going. So you've
got to vehicle that isn't particularly fast, and if you were to drive it
even even partially that fast, you get out on the highway and drive that
battery powered device at eighty miles an hour, let's say, which isn't that
fast. I mean most freeway traffic now is moving at seventy seventy five miles
an hour. Your range is going to take a dump, you know,
and then you're going to be listening to the fake sounds of gas pumping at
the fast charger for half a day, right that trap? Or is this
thing up? Well? You know, the weight is a big issue,
and of course they can't get around the laws of thermodynamics and physics with the
weight, and so it affects everything. It affects your performance in terms of
anything other than straight line acceleration. That's the key thing that I like.
I like to have a light car. You know, that was the big
appealing thing about Lotus. You know, all his slogan was to add lightness
and so, you know, minimize the weight. And now they've just completely
lost that to the extent that this study that was done a couple of years
ago. Wall Street journalists pulled it out said, because of the weight,
you're going through more break generating more brake dust and wearing your breaks down,
wearing your tires out, and all this other kind of stuff, So you
think about those things as emissions. Their response, their only response was well,
okay, yeah, but maybe it doesn't weigh that much more than an
suv or whatever. But they're talking about electrifying everything, and so they're talking
about electrifying the SUVs, they're talking about electrifying the semi trailers and everything.
So everything gets more, gets heavier, and they're not even talking about what
happens to our roads, what happens to parking garages that are going to have
to be redesigned, and all the rest of the stuff. None of it
makes any sense except you and I know and talked about this for years that
the end game for all of this, this mcguffin, they've got one thing
that they want, and that is to essentially take away all private transportation.
That's the end game. Sure, that's why all these evs get a pass
on so many fronts and business. With the weight, you know, there's
another thing that starts with W and it's waste, you know, all of
that weight. Think about all the materials that go into a three ton vehicle
like this, this device that Dodge just put out, you know, and
the raw materials that have to be pulled out of the earth and then manufacture,
refined, processed, what have you into this vehicle. I've read studies
that indicate that the typical EV consumes twice as much raw materials and energy as
a comparable, otherwise comparable gas engine car. It's disgusting. And they're also
energy hogs, you know. Think about how much electricity it takes to rocket
one of these things to six see in two or three seconds or whatever it
is, and card around the three tons. Meanwhile, you know, and
they have the audacity, you know, it's a preeing as being green,
you know, and it's just an astounding thing. And I think it relies
chiefly on this orchestrated campaign of preventing people from knowing the truth. You know,
I tell people when I talk to them, just random people about did
you know that as for example, this charge weighs nearly three tons, you
know, you know there was itways nearly as much this passenger car. As
you know, you look at the silhouette. It's not that big of a
car. It's slightly bigger than a Toyota Avalon, let's say, but it
has a curve weight that's comparable to a current fifteen hundred Chevy Duly pickup truck.
It's crazy, yeah, And as you point out, it's the energy.
It's the energy. However, you you've got something that is really heavy
and you're going to hurtle it down the road at this ludicrous speed, and
yet look at the amount of energy that's going to be consumed. Where's that
going to come from? The EPA is out there shutting down power plants,
just like they want to shut down people turbo charging their cars. It's absolutely
say. But we were talking earlier about the similarity between what was happening with
the COVID stuff and I talk about as being a mcguffin. You know,
they'll sell you some kind of you know, a maltice falcon or something right.
But they've got this end. The end of it is already in mind,
and ultimately, when you get all the way to the end, it's
about taking everything away from you, locking you down with surveillance and control.
But just like it was with this supposed pandemic, this supposed climate change thing,
they've got one solution that you're allowed to have and even when people come
up with a different solution, they won't allow it. And so it's kind
of interesting to see what is happening in that regard. I think with Toyota,
because Toyota has kind of gone their own way. They've tried now a
couple of different approaches. It's kind of like when people offered ivermectin and zinc
and or HCQ and zinc or ivermectin. And it's going to be interesting to
see if these dictators are going to allow that they've got a couple of different
solutions. They say, well, why don't we do an electric car that
is hydrogen fuel based, or why don't we have in the latest one is
to come out and say, well, we're going to scoop up CO two,
We're going to separate as the car is moving along going to scoop up
the scoop up the co two. We're going to extract that, We're going
to liquefy that and turn it into an e fuel. I wonder if they're
going to let them do that. What's going to be their rationale to say,
no, you can't do that that engineering solution. Yeah, I'm very
happy the direction that Toyota has decided to pursue because I considered Toyota to be
kind of analogus to Florida during the height of the pandemic. Yeah, you
know, you break the narrative by showing alternative that's more effective and reasonable,
and that helps to bring sanity back to the table. So, you know,
they had been very suit in not buying into this whole EV juggernaut.
They'd committed heavily to hybrids, which make all kinds of sense. I have
no problem with hybrids leeting aside the whole climate change mcguffin. There's nothing wrong
with the Toyota Prius that can get to sixty and six seconds and gives you
close to sixty months per gallon. That's excellent. I think that's great,
a very useful and practical car. And so they focus on making vehicles like
that, and without really saying it out loud, they're just kind of like,
Okay, we're going to continue to make vehicles people want, and we'll
let the chips fall where they win and let our rivals go out of business.
I think ultimately is what's going to happen here. Yes, yes,
yeah, it'll be interesting because you know if they push back against that.
One of the things during this pandemic and we're getting up to the four year
anniversary this thing, one of the things was that you saw a lot of
people who had been in the medical field and as they you know, they're
they're sold this agenda, Oh we got a pandemic, you know, in
this new novel pandemic, And they said, oh, okay, they believe
them. And then they said, but why don't we do this instead,
because what you're talking about doing, you know, this might work better.
That's I don't think going to work. And they immediately get shut down.
And then they realized, wait a minute, there's something else happening here.
And then eventually they wake up to the fact that it's not even really a
pandemic. That might be the best possible outcome to this. Go down to
the same path. You have the engineers that Toyota as they prove to people
that that their real concern was never about CO two or anything else like that,
it was always just about control because they won't accept these other alternatives.
And these other alternatives that Toyota is coming up with are unacceptable to them because
they have to have you charging something off of their power grid as they're shutting
the power grid down exactly. And you know, by the ways in this,
I think speaks to the broader point. You know, they're not even
allowing the affordable like in city kind of city suburban small evs that are available
in China into this country. Now we're in a climate crisis. When you
want people to you know, by whatever means, necessarily this is a good
basic transportation device. Lots of people can afford an eight or nine thousand dollars
you know, city car. But they won't allow that. That's fascinating to
me. Why won't they do it? You know, they talk about,
well they don't meet current federal shaft guidelines. Well wait a minute, you're
telling me there's an existential threat, the climate is in crisis, and we're
all going to you know, unless we reduce our carbon footprint. And yet
you know you're talking about well, you know, if you drive this thing,
if you have an accident, if you get hit a certainle, you
might get hurt. That somehow takes more priority over this supposed existential crisis.
It doesn't compute. It just does not make any sense until you realize that,
yeah, the end goal is not about climate change. It's about it's
about impoverishing all of us and controlling all of us. That is the endpoint
of all of this. That's right. And a lot of the climate alarmists
who believe all of this stuff, when you had the Paris Climate Accord,
which is a treaty, when that was self ratified by John Kerrey, and
the Republicans let him get away with that ruse, and Trump did throughout his
administration as well. But you know, when they came up with this climate,
this Paris climate thing, the people who really believed in that were outraged.
They that, how can you allow the two biggest countries, China and
India to continue with this? And so it exposed to them the fact that
they're not talking about gbal climate change due to CO two. They're not concerned
about that at all. This is really simply about uh, redistributing wealth.
Uh you know, from from these the countries where it is right now,
the United States, Europe and things that too, China, because these people
have gotten in on the ground floor with these uh, these these communist thugs
who are running their economy. There, Yeah, a good way. When
you hear the word carbon being bandied abouted by these people, just think of
energy. What we want to do is impose energy scarcity, which you know
is a way of calling population. At the end of the day, you
know, if you can't eat, if you can't heap warm, you know,
that is ultimately going to have health consequences. And that's ultimately what they
want. That's the end game. And it's I think it's difficult for most
people to imagine because it really is. It's incredibly malicious. It's unbelievably dark.
You know, it's kind of like I'm sure that the people who are
lining up for the box cars, you know, to be transported to the
East to be resettled a difficulty believe that they were actually being put onto a
box car and you know, being sent off to their doom. But the
situation, I think is quite comparable. Yeah, normal people always underestimate the
evil of these psychopaths, and they also underestimate their technology that they've got as
well. You have an article we probably have about a year and it goes
down the professional wrestling game, which is really appropriate. Now, what tell
us a little bit about that? But what do you think is going to
happen in the interim? Well, it was kind of a thought of exneriment,
you know, I'm just kind of trying to play out our game as
they put at these various scenarios. And one certain scenario that comes to mind
in this opera buffet or WWE wrestling match that we have between the Orange Man
and the Senile Man, is that they actually are going to let the Orange
Man win and then they're going to tank the economy and then there's going to
be some other awful thing that goes on so that they can pin the tail
on the Orange donkey and not just on him. Then they'll be able to
frame as look at all these awful white nationalists, MAGA supporting people who brought
this terrible, terrible man into office, and we have got to do something
about that. And we all know what they're going to do. About that.
So that's one of the things that concerns me. Now. The only
silver lining to that dark cloud is we have about a year to prepare and
get ready, you know, considered a gift of time to shore things up
in your personal oh boy, is to get ready for what's probably come in
Well, I agree, Yeah. The question is, you know, is
Biden going to get desperate enough to win that he's going to pull something in
the election year, because and I've said this to people, I said,
that's a possibility. But the other part of it is is that once you
know, if Trump gets in or if Biden gets reelected, they're definitely going
to pull something next year. I absolutely believe that. And one of the
reasons I believe it, Eric is because of this Fourth Turning thing in the
timeframe they all keep talking about twenty thirty. Everything is twenty thirty. That's
when they want to have their new society in And they all talk about millennials
and all of these other labels that Strauss and Howe used when they talked about
the Fourth Turning and about generations. But they don't want to talk about the
other part of it. But they do talk about these dates and so I
think they're very well aware of that, and they want to exploit that,
and they're going to have to get all of that done in the next presidential
term is when this is all going to go through. Let me read you
a couple of comments here from people Amos Pool, thank you very much for
the tippy s that I picked up a low mileage nineteen ninety seven Mustang Cobra
manual transmission, fun to drive, no computer BS. Tried the sixty seven,
which is a more beautiful classic, but it was like driving a truck,
not easy smooth drive. As a matter of fact, I had a
sixty eight Mustang, and I know exactly what you're talking about. I made
the mistake of changing the steering wheel, making it even smaller and putting bigger
times on it something wasn't already handling very well and really ruined it. Mentioning
while you have eric on love his perspective on that, what do you think
about that ninety seven Mustang COVID loved the car, you know, I got
to drive that when it was new, and one of those striking things about
it to me is that, Okay, nineteen ninety seven, how long ago
is that? Thirty years almost right, Yeah, and how much has improved
since then? You know, I have a twenty two year old truck and
I get it and I turned the key. It's electronically fuel injected. It
starts immediately. Its driveability is better than the new cars because it doesn't have
all of this additional complexity that's built into it. So what have we gotten?
What is improved? And you know, that's a fascinating thing to me.
It used to be that there was this linear progression. You know,
the reason that people bought new cars every few years was because the new car
was better. It offered things, you know, that were advantageous relative to
the old car. You went from six volts to twelve volts. You went
from bias apply to radial tires, transmissions without overdrive to the transmission with overdrive,
car breaks to fuel injection. All of these things were good and beneficial.
Now people are realizing all I'm getting with the new car is the sticker
shock. I'm getting this expensive, overteched thing that is controlling me and parenting
me and data mind me that I don't even potentially own me because like somebody
just shut it off remotely. So you know, what do you get.
I mean, that's a metric that things have have not really progressed much in
any meaningfully good way since the nineties. And of course that sticker shock is
almost like the Milgrim experiment, you know. But you know, even before
that, I remember when I was growing up as a kid, and I
wasn't paying attention to performance, but they weren't either. It was all about
styling. And one comment here from a Birdhouse Blue says, I can't even
tell them making the model of today's cars because they all look so much alike.
They didn't even bother did look at anything. And they're all the same
color. Essentially, they are all some you know, shade of gray.
I think it's great, Well, there's a white or silver or green.
I found that invertly. I found out why that is because I wondered about
that. I thought, how comes why is it so many people are choosing
to buy a vehicle that looks like a refrigerator. And the reason why,
combing through some of the paperwork that I get with the new vehicles that I
test drive, is that the manufacturers are now charging extra for the colors I
want to get, you know, I want to get something other than white.
Silver or black, you're going to end up paying eight hundred dollars more.
And so a lot of people are just skipping that. As far as
why they all look the same, it's because the government is designing cars now,
not the manufacturer. The regulations now have set forth effectively a template.
People who follow masscar racing will know what I'm talking about, Like there's literally
a template that the car has to fit in order for it's qualified to be
on the track. And in fact, the regulations have done just the same
with car design. They have to meet these same standards for things like bumper
impact, side impact and so on, and that necessarily winnows and funnels the
design down to this basic blob shape that you're seeing everywhere, this crossover blob
shape. And I've got to I occasionally put up a picture on the site
that shows it's got to be at least a dozen different makes and models of
crossover that all look the same, and you just can't tell what they are
unless you can find the badge somewhere. That's an interesting insight because it is
like masscar. When I talk about the colors of the cars, I kind
of joke, I said, you know, back in the fifties, the
TVs were on black and white and the cars were in technicolor. And now
it's just the opposite the way around, except that you have to just like
you had to pasture to get a color TV in the sixties when it came
around, you got to pasture to get a color car. So, yeah,
it's dreary, and again again to put it as sark relief, if
you go to it, it's getting to be spring and summer. Go to
a car show, you know, an old car show, and just look
at the profusion of difference, the wild styling that that used to be common.
You know, even among economy cars. I saw these quirky little things
that they would do with them that you never see anymore. They're all just
the same. And you know, that's just taking all the emotion and passion
out of cars, because, like I say, it literally is an appliance.
Now it's like you're buying it. Yeah, And I remember, you
know, as a kid, it was always an interesting thing that the use
of chrome and the use of fins and some of the stuff was really hideous
and some of it was like really cool, and it was always so what
are they going to do? Next. I mean, and they were trying
all kinds of stuff, you know, and then in the you know,
late sixties and early seventies, it became about improvements to performance and stuff like
that. But when I was a kid, it was all about appearance.
And as a kid you could certainly, you know, appreciate that and understand
that. But again today it's just like you point out, it's the government
designing cars, and we're winding up with is a lot of lot of is
just like the straight up. And it's happened too that it's interesting to me,
is in the luxury car segment, because of the regulations, they are
now the same extruded plastic blobs that the inexpensive cars are used to be.
That if you bought a high end car luxury part had a beautiful chrome,
you know, multiplate chrome, and it had real metal finishes on the inside.
It's like that. Now I was driving the Antivity and I looked at
it. I happened to be near a New land Rover, and adjacent to
the New land Rover was a Honda CRV. I mean, not much difference
between the two. They both had these they called them fascias. In these
plastic, huge bulbous kind of oprah winfree looking rear end treatments and the same
on the front, plastic everywhere. You know, you get inside the vehicle,
even a six figure car like you know, Mercedes. You get into
a six figure Mercedes and what do you see? You see it? Cheap
made in China, LCD touch screen, you know, and six or seven
years ago. Yeah, that was kind of provocative because nobody else had that
back then. Now everybody has it. You get into a twenty thousand dollars
Hyundai r Kia and it too has a big touch screen. So what are
you doing for your you know, you're getting for one hundred thousand dollars,
you're getting a big plastic three pointed star in your grill. Yeah, that's
right. And I really hate those touchscreens because you know, it takes your
eye off there. All these people say, well, it's distracted driving.
We're going to give you a fine if you're using a cell phone. It's
like, there's nothing more distracting than trying to use a touch screen as you're
bumping around and trying to drive and you got to stare at this thing.
It's just it's the worst thing because you know, if you've got a you
know, the old style cars, you had something that was tactile. You
know, once you located where that knob was, you could twist it while
you're paying attention to your driving. It is a really dangerous and distracting idea,
and yet the government is pretty much mandating that while it is punishing people
for doing the same thing with their phone. Well, and the reason doing
that is because again, the long term agenda is for you to not be
a driver, for you to be a passenger, and then it won't matter.
And then you know, you've got to keep the passenger busy. Right,
So now he's got the touch screen to play with, you know,
while he's being transported from me to be assuming of course he has a good
social credit scorre. You've got an article talking about good social credit score.
You got an article bought life, or you you chime in on what happened
with Jem and I this last week. Give us your take on that.
Well, it was interesting and I don't know whether you've experienced this, but
I've spoken with a number of other people who who write and have had,
for want of a better order, bought attack. You write an article that
challenges a narrative, whatever it might be, whether it has to do with
the vaccines or the electric cars, or Orange Man or whatever. And in
your comments section of your website you'll get these They have a weird cadence,
a strange mannerism, an odd way of putting things that just kind of recites
narrative talking points. And it's I'm convinced it's a bot. I mean,
I may be getting a paranoid, but I don't believe. I think that
these are these are ais that are sent out there kind of like in the
new movie and those little the little things would be out there spinning around and
trying to get at and I think, no discord, you know, and
they're trying to break up the conversation on the facts to present these these these
narrative points to view. You can still identify them. I think just by
the again, the awkwardisms and the incongruities that you'll see that a normal human
being wouldn't speak that way at least I don't think so. Yeah. And
of course, you know when you look at Jim and I and I talked
about this last week, Matt Taibi said, as everybody was talking about this
ridiculous, you know, cultural misappropriation. I guess we could call it,
you know when they say show me an American revolutionary soldier or somebody from seventeenth
century Scotland and it would make them black or Asian or whatever. So he
said, he said, I looked at the text thing and he and he
asked it to tell him something you know about about Trump or about Biden.
It wouldn't talk about them. So I said, you know, tell me
something about me, you know about Matt Tyve. And so it came and
made up all this stuff and it was all really negative and said, oh,
yeah, he's he's had a lot of complaints about his accuracy, and
it cited a lot of made up articles and then started cross referencing these made
up articles. I mean, it was literally automated defamation. And I've seen
this from somebody else early on, which chat gpt from open AI. It
was a politician who was running, and open AI came back and made up
a bunch of defamatory stuff about him as well. And their excuse of all
this stuff as well, it's just in his early stages. And you agreed
when you started to use this that it might have some issues and everything,
so we can say whatever we want to about you. We can make up
all kinds of detailed stuff. And that's the key thing about it. It's
so detailed now that and it's getting better at all this stuff. So if
it is pots out there, and if they are putting stuff out like that,
it's detailed enough so that it is believable. And people will look at
this and if they see it as a comment on a website, but even
if they see it and know that it's coming from one of these AI chat
programs that are prone to hallucinating, they're going to be inclined to believe it
because a it's like a computer print out. It's like these computer models that
they have about climate change or about the pandemic or whatever. Everybody is literally
this is the scary thing. Is literally what Oral described in nineteen eighty four
when the past was rewritten. You know, everything that's online they have.
If they managed to control everything that's online, they could literally erase the past
and create a new past. And so I think the lesson here, and
I've been doing this myself for many years. It's imperative that we have physical,
hard copy proof of the history of the past, including things like books
are now being rewritten so that we can show what they actually did say as
opposed to what they're telling us they say. Now, yes, oh absolutely,
yeah, you got to keep that as a record. As a matter
of fact. You know, that's you know, when we look at manuals
that we're going to have in order to you know, be able to survive
when things get really bad. Civil Defense Manual dot com. He only puts
it out in paper and everything. And by the way, we've got some
other comments here Narrow Away, Narrowgate Ministry is good to see you again,
he says. What I find remarkable is the ev bikes are catching fire as
well. People aren't being told about it. In New York City fire Department
has had three times of fire calls already this year then last because of ev
bike fires. Yeah. I talked about that a couple of days ago.
Just in a couple of months, they have surpassed what they used to have
in a year. People are dying business, you know. They tremendous number
of fires, and it's all of these different battery things. As they scale
the thing up, it gets even worse. They got two thousand of these
e buses, these electric buses in the UK, they're like a ticking going
They're going from four hundred to eight hundred volt architecture. Now, if you
can imagine the potential fire rust is involved in that, and what about if
it saves even well the time, you know, and apparently again another example,
it doesn't seem to matter in this case. You know, the people
are being killed by these things. Yeah, that's right. Uh, yes,
the staring girl says, right, Eric, I have a gray Honda
CRV because I would have had to go up to the next level above ex
if I bought a blue one. That's what they do with the color stuff.
My son says, So, I guess with these chargers they can make
the noise, they can make it shake. The only thing missing now is
they need to have a gasoline flavored vape spewing out the back. You know,
maybe while you're charging your charger, they can give you the gasoline smell.
Do you remember the smallophone that they'll probably come up with that too,
exactly Well, the probably will have the canned air, you know, the
Perry air that you had in spaceballs, that they had you could open that.
I find this also incredibly depressing. You know, it was interesting back
in when was it like ninety nine or ninety eight, whenever the original Matrix
came out, and you saw all these people who were sort of like a
fetus embedded in a pod, you know, and they were fed artificial reality
and in their minds they thought they were living their lives, and you know,
you thought, wow, that's a really horrific concept and it is becoming
the reality is this is a u all Noah Harari vision for our future?
Oh yeah? Or they what was at Wally where they had all the fat
people and you know, being unlike the cruise ship space thing? Was that
Wally? And I think it was Wally? Yeah, yeah, I look
at that and it's like, wow, these they really predicted us pretty well.
They kind of like the Simpsons. They know what the future is going
to be like and they put it in their cartoons. So yeah, it's
a couple of other things here before we run out of time here. O
En sixty one, thank you very much for a tip and the compliment.
I appreciate that. And Owen sixty one also said, I found the donation
key on Rumble, So that's good. Folks. They take a look and
if you need any help, it can show you where that is and we
would appreciate that. So you've also you you've talked about manual transmissions. What
is the state of manual transmissions now and why do they matter? And I
think that they do. But what is a state of it right now?
Well, the state of it is that they are making something of a comeback
in some segments. Toyota has brought out once again Toyota a number of new
models, including the Corolla GR I think it is with a manual transmission,
and I think BMW is going to offer the manual Indo Z four, which
had previously been automatic only. But the overall trend is for automatic only,
and I think it's pernicious. It's not just because I'm an enthusiast and I
enjoy driving cars with manual transmissions. I believe it's really important that people learn
to drive and have a sense of themselves in relation to the vehicle. And
if I had a kid and I was teaching that kid how to drive,
I would teach the kid how to drive on a manual car because it focuses
them that's right, the driving, and that develops a habit and a skill
set that takes you through life and makes you a better driver going down the
road, even if you don't drive a manual car going forward. Yeah,
but you know, the reason that the automatics are becoming so dominant is simply
because they can be programmed. You know, once again back to the government.
You can't program a manual transmission. You can program an automatic and electronically
controlled automatic transmission. And that matters because all these manufacturers have to comply with
these tests that the government sets forth. So they set them up to shift
a certain way and at a certain time to optimize things like fuel economy and
to reduce emissions. And there you go, and that's why automatics have become
ubiquitous now all but yeah, it's a way of cheating on the test,
except oh, they don't like it when you cheat on them. All they
do in some cases not they if you go in the direction they wanted.
Just had a listener who was talking about that the other day, did the
same thing with their kid as you're just talking about, same thing I did
with my child, And I said, you know, I'll help you if
you get a manual transmission, And he said, you want them to drive
that because it does focus the more and he says, of course, they
also can't have the phone in their hand while they do this manual transition,
so it's got a lot of real benefits there. But I always always love
the manual personally because it is such a more engaging process. And I find
that I don't I'm not I'm personally don't believe I'm as good and as attentive
a driver when I am driving an automatic as I am when I'm driving a
manual, because you don't have to be that's right, you know, when
you have, of course, you kind of have to look down the road
and anticipate, you know, the changing in traffic conditions and how you're going
to respond to that. In your mind, the gears are turning, you
know, and well you're deciding which gear are going to be in, what
gear you're going to be in next, and so on. Worse with you
and I'm automatic, you're just goin to zone out and listen to Well,
we're all going to have to get manual control of our government and our society.
We're going to have to get it in gear pretty soon because time is
running out. Thank you so much for joining us, Eric Peters at Eric
Petersauto dot com. Thank you very much, Thank you, David, Thank
you. Have good day. The common man. They created common Core and
dumbed down our children. They created common Past to track and control us.
They're Commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future.
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has worth and dignity created in the image of God. That is what we
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