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for car Shenanigans instead of car talk, we'll call this car shananigans. Nick
Miles is here from our autoexpert dot com and a focus on cars. There
has been a bitter blog posting going on the last since we spoke last week,
the radio industry versus the some of the automakers. I'm not sure it's
the automakers, although it's a direct link between the automakers and this supposed consumer
advocacy group. Say that again, Doug, a little faster consumer advocacy group
that says we don't need AM radios in cars. It's a waste and it'll
cost three billion dollars, which is the biggest crock in this ole argument.
Three wait away, three point eight billion. You put that under a microscope
and you come up with not a lot of credibility. Frank and I know
it's easy for me to make this statement because a lot of the people that
carry of the four hundred some odd stations to carry my programs. Most of
MERIM I'd say three quarters of MERIM FM transmitters and FM this and that.
But why should there be a difference between AM and FM. That's one of
the things that really bothers me. Over the years, the government has failed
to support AM radio. So now they're taking it on the chin because the
technology has been developed nick to make it so that when you have a battery
powered car there is an interference in the AM signal. That's just laziness,
bad management, whatever it is. But the National Association of Broadcasters is fighting
back. Now. Some of the car manufacturers trying to influence policy here,
and it's just for they're self interest, not for the people to buy their
cars. So what do you do in something like that when somebody these big
powerful companies like General Motors and Ford and Chrysler, they decide what you're going
to buy. I know a lot of people are upset because the Dodge charger
has been eliminated. Why is a very popular car? What do they stop
making? They just said they didn't want to make it anymore. Well,
okay, don't you do that at your own peril exactly, And I think
they'll have to replace it with something. I mean, Dodge, You've got
a lot of new stuff on the block, but the original charger platform was
actually Mercedes from their time when they were part of the Dodge group, from
I think twenty years ago. So yeah, it probably needs updating, but
it doesn't need to go away. I think they still sell eighty thousand of
them every year, So eighty thousand people are still buying their vehicles between thirty
and eighty thousand dollars. That's income. There's money there. It's the same
with AM radio. If you take it away, you take away income streams
for not only people who work in the industry, but people who advertise in
the industry. And it's like saying, hey, tomorrow, you're no longer
allowed to use your left leg. Well, it doesn't make any sense.
It works quite fine, so why would you do it? What a great
analogy that is. I see there's a new study on electric vehicles and what
consumers think about them. Is it different than what you and I have been
talking about. Where people are finally waking up to what happens to the electric
vehicle if you keep it for seven years. A lot of people don't keep
them. That long, so whoever buys its secondhand. Well, I mean,
at the end of the day, this is going to be a real
kind of anchor in the water, right, It's going to be a problem.
And I think it's important for us to understand why people don't want electric
cars and what's wrong so we can explain it to others. And that's the
thing is, oh, we electric cars just don't work. Well, the
truth is you've got to understand how many people don't want electric cars because of
what reason and until those things are corrected. I mean, safety is a
major concern with electric cars, and it's not getting shocked from the battery,
but if your vehicle catches fire. I mean, fire departments are having to
learn how to deal with electric car fires. And in some instances it can
take thirty times the amount of water that's carried in one fire truck. So
does that mean when you have an electric fire in your vehicle you have to
send thirty fire trucks to put it out. I mean these are issues that
just don't make them safe. And I don't think you would carry a gas
a fuel tank around in your truck which was open in the rear. It's
the same reason that we have to get these vehicles safer before we get them
on the road for mass adoption. Otherwise fire departments just won't be able to
deal with everyday fender benders. Well, there's that, and then there is
the other. I mean, the fact that these things are being incorrectly promoted.
The value of them is being overstated in terms of what they do or
don't do to the e to the environment. That's also a crock of you
know what. All right, So the study is available at my auto no
I personalized this sorry our autoexpert dot com. He is my auto expert too,
Nick Miles here on good Day the next stefan Good Day download with Doug
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