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for car Shenanigans instead of car talk, we'll call this car shananigans. Nick

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Miles is here from our autoexpert dot
com and a focus on cars. There

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has been a bitter blog posting going
on the last since we spoke last week,

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the radio industry versus the some of
the automakers. I'm not sure it's

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the automakers, although it's a direct
link between the automakers and this supposed consumer

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advocacy group. Say that again,
Doug, a little faster consumer advocacy group

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that says we don't need AM radios
in cars. It's a waste and it'll

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cost three billion dollars, which is
the biggest crock in this ole argument.

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Three wait away, three point eight
billion. You put that under a microscope

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and you come up with not a
lot of credibility. Frank and I know

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it's easy for me to make this
statement because a lot of the people that

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carry of the four hundred some odd
stations to carry my programs. Most of

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MERIM I'd say three quarters of MERIM
FM transmitters and FM this and that.

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But why should there be a difference
between AM and FM. That's one of

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the things that really bothers me.
Over the years, the government has failed

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to support AM radio. So now
they're taking it on the chin because the

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technology has been developed nick to make
it so that when you have a battery

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powered car there is an interference in
the AM signal. That's just laziness,

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bad management, whatever it is.
But the National Association of Broadcasters is fighting

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back. Now. Some of the
car manufacturers trying to influence policy here,

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and it's just for they're self interest, not for the people to buy their

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cars. So what do you do
in something like that when somebody these big

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powerful companies like General Motors and Ford
and Chrysler, they decide what you're going

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to buy. I know a lot
of people are upset because the Dodge charger

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has been eliminated. Why is a
very popular car? What do they stop

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making? They just said they didn't
want to make it anymore. Well,

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okay, don't you do that at
your own peril exactly, And I think

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they'll have to replace it with something. I mean, Dodge, You've got

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a lot of new stuff on the
block, but the original charger platform was

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actually Mercedes from their time when they
were part of the Dodge group, from

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I think twenty years ago. So
yeah, it probably needs updating, but

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it doesn't need to go away.
I think they still sell eighty thousand of

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them every year, So eighty thousand
people are still buying their vehicles between thirty

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and eighty thousand dollars. That's income. There's money there. It's the same

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with AM radio. If you take
it away, you take away income streams

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for not only people who work in
the industry, but people who advertise in

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the industry. And it's like saying, hey, tomorrow, you're no longer

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allowed to use your left leg.
Well, it doesn't make any sense.

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It works quite fine, so why
would you do it? What a great

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analogy that is. I see there's
a new study on electric vehicles and what

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consumers think about them. Is it
different than what you and I have been

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talking about. Where people are finally
waking up to what happens to the electric

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vehicle if you keep it for seven
years. A lot of people don't keep

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them. That long, so whoever
buys its secondhand. Well, I mean,

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at the end of the day,
this is going to be a real

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kind of anchor in the water,
right, It's going to be a problem.

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And I think it's important for us
to understand why people don't want electric

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cars and what's wrong so we can
explain it to others. And that's the

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thing is, oh, we electric
cars just don't work. Well, the

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truth is you've got to understand how
many people don't want electric cars because of

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what reason and until those things are
corrected. I mean, safety is a

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major concern with electric cars, and
it's not getting shocked from the battery,

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but if your vehicle catches fire.
I mean, fire departments are having to

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learn how to deal with electric car
fires. And in some instances it can

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take thirty times the amount of water
that's carried in one fire truck. So

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does that mean when you have an
electric fire in your vehicle you have to

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send thirty fire trucks to put it
out. I mean these are issues that

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just don't make them safe. And
I don't think you would carry a gas

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a fuel tank around in your truck
which was open in the rear. It's

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the same reason that we have to
get these vehicles safer before we get them

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on the road for mass adoption.
Otherwise fire departments just won't be able to

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deal with everyday fender benders. Well, there's that, and then there is

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the other. I mean, the
fact that these things are being incorrectly promoted.

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The value of them is being overstated
in terms of what they do or

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don't do to the e to the
environment. That's also a crock of you

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know what. All right, So
the study is available at my auto no

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I personalized this sorry our autoexpert dot
com. He is my auto expert too,

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Nick Miles here on good Day the
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