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Time to recharge in very, very
cold weather and the results are exasperated.

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The last two or three winners,
we've had somewhat of a mideld winter,

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but right now it's kind of back
to normal in which we have a cold

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spell of under zero when it comes
to the wind show and the fact that

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there's not enough charging stations publicly to
handle the demand means that it can take

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two to four hours to a recharge
your vehicle. And of course, according

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to the experts on CNBC this morning
is Dale Donovan knows that when it's below

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twenty degrees that the batteries lose twenty
to forty two percent of their ability to

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take a charge because of cold temperatures. Once again, the man, the

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myth, the legend, the man
who owns Mcenteewall country Club, soon to

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change his name the Donovan country Club
is the one Dale Donovan, Dale Donovan

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under a hood somewhere in pleasant Ridge. This afternoon. Welcome to the Bill

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Cunningham Show. Dale Donovan. How
are you, good, Willie? How

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you doing doing well? Let's go
the four or five issues. How's that

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golf game? You know golf ball
won't go as far either in the cold

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weather either. What goes better when
it's zero? I think nothing except ice

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fishing. But over the last twenty
thirty years, you've seen it all and

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you've done it all. You've built
a great small business. You employ a

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lot of people. You've been under
more hoods than Robin. You know exactly

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where the bodies are buried, from
pleasant Ridge to Blue Ash. What you

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do is fixed cars and work hard, work smart with your hands and with

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your head. You have dozens of
employees that repair these things, including evs.

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Give me the two or three reasons
from Dale Donovan's book as to why

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not to buy an EV. You
know this is a great question, Willie.

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First of all, think about it. When you buy an EV,

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all right, the best scenario is
you better have a garage to keep it

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in, okay, because those things. You know, if you've got an

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EV and it's sitting outside and it's
sitting in that you know, nice cold

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weather in the wind, and it's
got ice on it. And then you

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know that a lot of the tessels
out there have the automatic door handles that

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pop up also you're charging. When
you go to charge it, you got

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to pop the little door open.
And if there's ice all over that that

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won't work. You have to start
your car up first, and you gotta

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let it warm up before you can
even do any of those. Okay,

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So you got to make sure that
you have the ideal situation where you're gonna

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keep your EV car in a garage, So you gotta make sure that you

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got the space. So that's one
disadvantage. A lot of people don't have

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garages and then they keep their cars
outside. So you've got to make sure

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that you know, and I would
highly advise if someone's gonna have an electric

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car, then you've got to go
ahead and put the charger on as well.

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You got to put the charger on
at your house. Now that can

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get quite expensive depending on how far
away they got to run that service from

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their electrical box, so that can
get kind of expensive as well. So

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you know, there's just there is
a lot of negatives, and people did

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not realize any of that because when
they were talking to the salesperson then they

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were getting the great deal on the
car, and test to lower their price

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on a lot of their cars,
and they go ahead and snatch them all

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up, and then all of a
sudden, we got a nice cold winter

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snap just like you said. I
mean, you know where were they selling

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these things and making these things?
Or out of California. By the way,

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I did get I got a picture
of a guy today sent to me.

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It's a picture of a plant where
they're making batteries here in America or

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parts of the battery or something.
And man, you should have seen the

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pollution that thing was pumping out a
lot, a lot. Well, I'm

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looking at a study by something called
the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Maybe that's

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one of your favorite reading books at
night. The Journal of the Industrial ecologe

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Ecology adjusted for the effect of temperature
and fuel efficiency, tracking vehicles over a

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twenty five year lifetime, categorizing every
vehicle by size, range, and type,

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accounted for different evy charging behaviors,
exploring the call of ownership, and

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fourteen cities across America that they want
to over an eighteen month period examine ten

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thousand cars and then made twenty percent
of it to be EV's. They wanted

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to know if, according to University
of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, whether

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it is cheaper to own and ev
than a gas powered vehicle. They came

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to the conclusion it's not cheaper.
It's more expensive to own when you take

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into account all the elements of car
ownership that all of us are familiar with.

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I spoke to a car dealer in
call Your County, Florida, who

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told me that a Ford dealer they
do not take in evs anymore in trade.

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And I said, why not hurts
because hurts? How many hurts?

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Twenty thousand evs have hurts. They've
dumped into the system saying nobody wants them.

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They can't drive. You can't be
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driving around with these things because you
have to stop every two or three hours,

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and if it's called, you got
to stop for an hour. And

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then no one has four hours a
day. But he said, the value

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of these cars on the secondary market
has plummeted. And when they get an

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EV, the first thing they do
is send it to auction. Explain that

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process. Yeah, well, can
you imagine this, will you? I

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mean, it's hard enough for people
getting a rental car, and you know

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they're talking about, you know,
buying the gas priee when you take an

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EV, when you rent an EV. Because I had a friend of mine

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rented one and He's like, I'll
never do that again. It was,

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and he goes, I gotta have
a charge. I got to keep getting

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a charge. There's no place here
to get a charge. And you know

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I need to you know, when
I return it, it's got to be

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so much of a charge left in
it. And he says, it's been

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an absolute nightmare as far as you
know, trying to keep the same charge.

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And it's you know, the other
thing that you know, these cars

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they know everything about you, they
know where you are. You know,

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Let's say, let's say down the
road where everybody's driving their little electric cars.

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Someone in the big guy goes,
hey, you're driving too much.

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What you can't drive that much anymore. We're gonna shut your car down.

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We're not going to let you drive. Boy, think that could happen.

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I bet it can. Yeah,
that's some day it might happen the government

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or or or maybe you're driving too
fast. Oh we're gonna have to slow

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you down. You're driving way too
fast. Who needs police officers out on

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the roads when you know they can, you know, you know, check

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your or slow your car down if
they have till right, or secondly,

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simply send you a ticket. In
the mail saying that such is such a

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time you were driving ten above the
speed limit, and therefore, here's your

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ticket paid immediately. By twenty twenty
six, there's a kill switch going to

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be mandated by the Biden administration in
every brand new car twenty twenty six has

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the ability. The government has the
ability to shut your vehicle down. They're

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tired of police chases. One thousands
of one percent of us may go into

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police chase. They want to shut
the car down, or if you're driving

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too fast, they can shut the
car down. So the Apartment of Transportation,

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which is shut down your car a
new one starting in twenty twenty six

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to month to your driving. When
you had on to Pete Budajedge about two

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months ago, I watched him saying
that too many Americans have the temperature in

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their house too high. It shouldn't
be seventy or seventy two, it should

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be sixty four degrees. And so
that means with these smart thermostats, think

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and monitor the temperature inside your house, how fast you drive your car,

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what kind of what light bulb to
put in a lamp, how much how

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many ounces of water to have in
your toilet, that's where we are,

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because in twenty twenty six, they're
gonna have a kill switch on Dale Donovan's

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new car. What about that one? Yeah, how do you like that?

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That's terrible, isn't it. I
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freedoms seem to be getting less and
less correct. Yes, our freedom.

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You know. Here's the other thing
is you know, I like, you

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know, they're they're okay, there's
fine. I mean, there's you know,

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Tesla's fine. You know a lot
of people have it. The hybrids

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are very very nice because you got
both the best of both worlds, right,

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you know. But you know,
these electric cars, you got to

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make sure that you take everything into
consideration when you buy the It's okay to

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have one and use it locally,
but man, if you want to take

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a long trip, Let's say,
let's say you said, all these people

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in Chicago, someone's got his wife's
pregnant. She goes in blame. Uh

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huh, oh boy, you better
call a gas powered uber. We'll take

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your way to the hospital. Well, the other issue out of out of

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Grove Park, Illinois, which is
the suburb of Chicago, is at half

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the charging stations of Tesla don't work
when it's cold, because they get moisture

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in the lines, And there's other
reasons why I won't hook up. And

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it costs a lot of money to
recharge your vehicle. But if you wait

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an hour or two and you come
up and it doesn't work, then get

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back in line to the next person. What do you do? What about

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towing? I've had some toe operators
say we won't tow an EV anymore because

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of the additional weight and the fear
of some damage and going back and being

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sued for thousands of dollars. Explain
the towing business when it comes to an

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EV. Well, I have you
know, I don't see a lot of

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them. I know up in Chicago
they had a lot of them that had

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to be towed. You know that. I have not heard it, but

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I would say probably the biggest thing. I mean, they are extremely heavy,

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and you know, you know that
they've had some problems with some batteries

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catching fire, especially with water,
right you know, how about if you're

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in a flood zone where you know
you're EV if it you know, gets

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up to the battery which is on
the bottom of the car, so as

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soon as it goes up, you
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batteries underwater could short out, could
cause a fire. So there's another problem.

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I mean, I don't know if
you've ever seen. There's a picture

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I solve someone tanker bringing taking a
bunch of electric cars somewhere and they're all

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on fire because water splashed up over
the brick and ship and got into the

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batteries and caught the cars on fire. All of them burned to the burnt

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down. I had another a car
salesman tell me they wouldn't buy an EV

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because so many catch on fire inside
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is, you plug it in.
It cost about five thousand dollars the additional

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ability to fire it up overnight,
and they catch fire to higher numbers than

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gasoline powered cars for one reason or
another, and this possibility. Like in

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California in July and August, they
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The power grid is being being stressed
out here, and don't plug in

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your car right now. In Texas
they're asking people the power grid is in

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jeopardy and they're urging people not to
use the electricity right now in the state

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of Texas. Well, what happens
if there's an emergency and you want to

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get in your car and drive somewhere
because you have to, and you don't

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have a charge. What do you
do? You're out of luck, you

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know. You know That's the other
thing, Willy is you know the Americans

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were forced into this whole thinking of
buying the electric cars. I mean,

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you know, the batteries aren't made
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You know the batteries are you know, it's you know, not produced

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here, It's produced in China.
This is we're giving China jobs, not

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American jobs, for the cars.
And they do have a but you know

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another alternative. I mean, these
gas cars are getting unbelievable gas mileage and

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they get better and better every single
year, and there is other alternatives than

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electric cars. Okay that you know
that Toyota is working on as well as

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you know some of the American manufacturers. So you know, I just I

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just don't think that them forcing it
down our throats is the right way to

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do it. Look at this right, because it's a hybrid at Toyota Siena

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from Joseph. Toyota gets about forty
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the gallon. And you and I
grew up in Cincinnati Dale Donovan when there

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was pollution everywhere. In fact,
we were told do not drink or eat

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anything out of the Ohio River,
and there was a small constant condition over

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the valley between Covington and Clifton because
of all the smog. Right now we

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have the cleanest air and the cleanest
water we've had in one hundred years,

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and every year it gets better.
And using a hybrid or going to hydrogen

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vehicle, which is what Toyota's thinking
about doing, makes a whole bunch of

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sense, but it doesn't fit the
politics of the day. So politics that

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is left wing Marxist social politics.
Drives the idea that average Americans have to

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spend fifty thousand dollars for a vehicle
that has no trade in value, that

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may set their house on fire and
won't work when it's cold. That sounds

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like a great government deal to me, just like everything in the government.

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Man, they got great ideas' theoretically
in theory. In theory, in theory

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they And then the other issue is, of course the weight, the cost,

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the resale, the charging time,
the towing, and it's getting worse,

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not better until we have dilithium crystals
from Star Trek the next generation.

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Unless we find di lithium crystal somewhere, Let's have hydrogen, let's have hybrid,

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let's get the bridge over troubled waters. Until we find that miracle source

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of cold nuclear fusion. Whatever that's
going to take ten to twenty years,

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just let it happen, right,
Yeah, they will come out with something.

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They will come out with it.
That's what that's what we do in

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America, right, we figure things
out. Right. Well, lastly,

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you know, lastly, Dale Donovan, you know everything about cars from the

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license plate all the way to the
back bumper. Would you or your family

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member in this climate at this time
in twenty twenty four ever buy a fully

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electric vehicle. No, I will
not do it right now. They're not

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there. Maybe in ten years,
maybe fifteen years, maybe in ten years,

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twenty years, but right now it's
just it's just not feasible, you

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know, it's just not It's not
a good choice right now. So that's

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my thoughts. Willie, Well,
good luck at the club this summer.

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When will you have segment and I
over to play golf at the Donovan Country

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Club formerly known as Mcinteewah, it's
wide open tomorrow. Are you available?

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No. In fact, I think
it's gonna be colder. I think through

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the weekend. I think on Sunday
it's gonna be like two with a windshill

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of minus fourteen. That's perfect ev
weather. Can't wait, can't wait,

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Dale, Donovan, good luck during
the summertime, Willie. We'll go play

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golf. We'll go play golf for
money. I'm going to try to win,

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try, but we're gonna play golf
for money this time, a lot

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of money, Dale Donovan, Dale, Donovan Tyre knows all about cars.

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