The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW EU Cities Blocking Movement Within Each City

Episode Date: November 29, 2022

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Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ee. All right, and joining us now is Eric Peters. His website is epautos.com, and he focuses on freedom. And to have freedom, we have to have mobility. So he does a lot of, uh, reviews about transportation, what is happening, how it's being taken away from us, shut down

private transportation. He also has a lot of practical reviews on cars. And so we want to talk a little bit about that as well. He's got a, uh, one that he's working on right now. He just told me off, um, when I was off the air, but I want to begin, thank you for joining us, Eric. Oh, thanks for having me on again, David. Great to have you. Let's talk about this article you got, Panem in Process. What is that about? Well, it is about basically the Hunger Games, which a lot of people will be familiar with. The book was very popular, and so was the movie, about a dystopian future in which people are herded into provinces controlled by a capital city. And their freedom to move from one province to another

is greatly restricted and of course everybody's hungry except for the people in the capital city who have plenty to eat uh... and i found something very interesting going on in the u k and i think you're aware of it as well where they're attempting to institute kind of a beta test of the hunger games over there uh... in the old city of canterbury where what they're attempting to institute kind of a beta test of the Hunger Games over there in the old city of Canterbury, where what they're doing is creating zones around the capital,

and people will not be permitted to freely move in between the zones. Instead, they'll be expected to walk or ride a bicycle or use government transportation, or they might be allowed to use what they're going to call like a concentric ring that's outside of the whole periphery that makes getting to anywhere extremely difficult. And of course, it's all being done in the name of curbing pollution and for the sake of saving the planet. Yeah, and people drive a little bit more. Yeah, well, ultimately, yeah, you know, if you look at it from that, if you assume that

that's their actual intention, you would say, well, wait a minute. This is going to result in more pollution because it's going to result in more congestion and all of that. That's not the objective. The objective is, as in the Hunger Games, to herd people, to corral them, to limit and restrict their ability to go anywhere to however far they can walk or pedal a bicycle. That's right. Yeah, that's why I said for the longest time you know youtube had called their smart city uh test up in toronto they called it sidewalk labs and so that's because they're going to have you walking on the sidewalk and living on the sidewalk uh but uh yeah this thing

in canterbury i talked about it briefly you got an excellent article uh laying it all out i talked about it briefly uh a week or two ago uh you know, what was happening in Canterbury. I think they did something like this in Belgium or another European place. They've already started doing this. And it's the, again, restricting people's movements. And I think, Eric, you know, this goes back to geospatial intelligence. The thing that the Internet has really been focused on, or I should say the people who funded the Internet, the venture capitalists from the NSA, from the intelligence community and others, um,

working with In-Q-Tel and the rest of the stuff in the late nineties, when the internet became practical, it's like, all right, we need to be able to use this to not only monitor what people are saying and thinking, but we need to be able to map them, uh, and, you know, see what is happening with their traveling. And so this is one way to come in. They've got the climate MacGuffin saying, oh, it's all about the emissions. No, this is about micromanagement of your movements and recording all of your movements, isn't it? It is.

And when all the pieces come together, electrification, that agenda, the electric car ties into it because these electric cars are electronic and they're connected to the hive mind, if you want to use that term, and their energy is dependent upon a centrally controlled source, so as to make it that much more easy for them to control your ability to get around. That is, to understand all of what's going on, you have to understand that's what this is all about. Yeah, and this is something that is really rapidly rolling out

in the UK, all these different things. And they're trying all these different schemes. They're attacking cars because cars are not as much of a, not as ingrained in the UK as they are here. Uh, we have bigger distances. And so, you know, it was, um, uh, something that was far more important for us. We didn't, well, they got smaller distances. They have a lot of public transportation controlled by the government. And so cars were not the essential fundamental thing to the British that they are to us. But it's rolling out quite a bit there. So you have this example here. Bristol is now going to put in a nine pound a day charge for older cars.

And they have just started it. And again, saying this is about emissions. It's not about emissions. a nine pound a day charge for older cars. And they have just started it. And, uh, again, saying that's about emissions. It's not about emissions. It's about omissions. They're trying to omit things out of your life. So it's going to be about $10 a day,

uh, to, um, use certain roads just because you've got an older car and they're coming after the people who don't have that much money, right? And they're going to leave the, uh,

the newer cars. Hey, you, if you spent, uh, you know, 60, They're going to leave the newer cars. Hey, if you spent $60,000, $70,000, $80,000, $90,000 for a new electric car, we'll leave you alone. That's fine. But these poor people who've got an older car, oh, we're going to have done them pretty hard. Yeah, it's interesting how elitist the left has become. That's one facet of this. And the other is I expected this sort of thing to happen, and I think it's going to happen here as well, because they have to close the, in Airfinger's quotes, loophole of people having older vehicles, especially older paid-for vehicles that they're not debt-inserved to, in order to, to use Cass Sunstein's term, nudge them, if they can afford it, into one of these

$50,000 and up electric cars. That's right. Yeah, and of course, it follows the lead of what Sadiq Khan is doing in London. Does that sound like a Star Trek villain or something? It sure doesn't sound like a prime minister of the United Kingdom. Yeah, well, that's Rishi Rich. I said there's something fishy about Rishi. But Sadiq Khan, he's been a villain for quite a while, and he's created these ultra-low emission zones, and they charge you or ban you in some cases, but if you do go in, you pay even more than $10 a day.

You're going to pay $15 and up. This is the same guy who flew on a jet to attend that conference, the recent G20 conference, and you've got to wonder, again, if they really believe in their shibboleths that the climate catastrophe is imminent and that we've just got to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, what kind of a psychopath would then get on an airplane that produces more carbon dioxide in that one round trip than you or I probably caused to be emitted over the course of an entire year of

driving. Oh yeah. Yeah. The hypocrisy is just stunning with these wealthy people. I mean, you know, the plane jet travel, you know, every month there's another conference somewhere and they're all jetting back and forth. But then, you know, when you go to their most recent one at COP 27, they're telling us to eat bugs while they're having hundred dollar uh steak medallions um and did you catch the piece in the washington post the other day about that where they were essentially trying to groom kids into uh you know eating grasshopper powder and mealworms oh yeah oh yeah that's that's being pushed and you know you're a bad person if you don't eat that right uh that's a different way of looking at you are what you eat right we think of that from

a nutritional standpoint but they think of it from a virtue signaling standpoint, don't they? Yeah, it's astounding to me the way they have succeeded in manipulating people into embracing, to welcoming their own diminution, their insurfment, their impoverishment. Yeah, you know what? It's like a suicidal thing is it is and and um you know when we look at these ultra low emission zones and how they're going to uh tax compliance with it uh sadiq khan says he wants singapore style toll roads and this is why i've always opposed toll roads you know when they were brought in by this um uh you know marxist in disguise tom tillis in north carolina when i was there and um you know

they'd never had any toll roads before that i'm proud to say tennessee is one of only about 15 states that has zero toll roads i'm very happy about that but you know we'd never had any yeah we'd never had any in north carolina until tom tillis got in and he was somebody that they leapfrogged over when they got a majority in the House in North Carolina for the first time since the Civil War. The Republicans leapfrogged him over a guy who was a real Republican. And he brought in the toll roads that were going to be operated by a foreign company in Spain. And then he was successful at that and a few other things. And they put him in as a senator.

And now he's doing a lot of things as senator that are un-Republican or not about small government or freedom. He's opposed to all those different things. But I said, you know, when you look at these toll roads, that is another way to monitor and to control people and to, you know, make it difficult for people to, um, be able to afford to have a car. It's always been about the cars. You go back and you look to the very first Earth Day and you got these radical hippies out there screaming, we got to ban all cars. And I was like, I knew it was coming.

I knew it. I just, again, I was hoping it wasn't going to come in my lifetime. You know, like I was just talking about Hezekiah. Of course, they kept it close to the chest for a long time, and they would use shibboleths, such as emissions, at first. Then when they solved the emissions problem, and, you know, when that was a legitimate problem, meaning an air quality problem, a pollution problem, they then very subtly and very oilily changed the definition of emissions to encompass carbon dioxide,

which, of course, has nothing to do with pollution at all. And we're able to successfully manipulate the public consciousness into equating carbon dioxide, the inert gas that plants need to produce the oxygen that we breathe, into something analogous to what fouled the sky in Los Angeles in 1970. And I've got to give them credit for the effectiveness of their propaganda. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

I knew a guy who was fighting all of this green agenda. He'd worked for the EPA from its inception, and he retired and fought them because they had changed it from fighting pollution to trying to control people's lives and to use this whole green agenda, uh, renewable, forcing renewable energy, shutting down things that are working before we've got anything else to replace it. That's working, uh, paying no attention to the cost. And so he, he was fighting them on that, but you know, there was, uh, they made it about pollution, but then they pivoted to their agenda to control people, uh, through the grid and other things like that, the grid that they are working very heavily to shut down. Uh, so it's not about what they say it's about at all. And when you look at, you talk about carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide has increased. The temperature did not go up concurrently with it. But what we did have, unsurprisingly for anybody who knows what's going on, you had the greening of the earth.

So now we got to dim the sun by injecting particles in the stratosphere, they say. Sure. Yeah, you know, ultimately, the car is the way that the average person can get away from these micromanaging, planning control freak people. Historically, it's been the means by which average Americans, you know, blue collar people, working class people could get out of a filthy, dirty, crime ridden city and move out to a farther away place where they could perhaps afford a single-family home and a safe neighborhood for their kids to grow up in. The planning elites cannot stand this.

They want everybody herded into some kind of a province that's controlled by the capital city. That whole Hunger Games thing is actually quite correlative to the situation that's developing in this country. Oh, yeah. All the way down to the crazy weirdos on television. We've got Sam Britton who just committed a felony by stealing some lady's luggage on his plane flight. I guess he wanted the dresses inside.

I'm kind of an eccentric guy myself. I don't have a problem with people being strange up to a point. My bone to pick with these people is that they posture as friends of humanity and benefactors of the poor, but they're really some of the most vicious, sadistic, and cruel people that you can imagine in terms of the effects that their policies, which they're never honest about, will have on average people. Oh, yeah. And I think those two things are connected with each other. There's something about people who are just obsessed with their appearance and other things like that that doesn't work out well for us.

And I don't think you should put someone like that in charge of nuclear waste. It's just too into himself. I'm a wrong-thinkful person, but when I look at that individual, I see somebody who's in need of some pretty serious psychological therapy and probably shouldn't be on the loose at all, let alone in charge of anything having to do with nuclear stuff. Yeah, that's right. But of course, you know, even though he committed a felony, I expect nothing to come of it because, you know, just take a look at Hunter.

You know, they're not going to expose anything that anybody did, no matter how it... I think, you know, Hunter's just expecting that at some point in time, the lithium battery is going to catch fire, and he's just going to destroy all the evidence. I think that's what he's banking on. If we just run this thing out long enough, the lithium battery is going to destroy all the evidence. Maybe that's what...

Well, and it's a safe bet, but it has helped to foster this extraordinarily corrosive cynicism, which is understandable. People understand that there are rules for thee and rules for me, right? You know, the system is profoundly broken. There is endemic hypocrisy. Justice is not served. And the only people who get away with things are the rich and powerful and everybody else. You know, they're held to an entirely different standard.

That's right. Yeah, you were talking about cities, you know, and how... At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival, we're giving new members money back as a free sports bet up to €10 if your horse loses on a selected race. That's how we celebrate the biggest week in racing. Cheltenham with LiveScoreBet. This is total betting.

Sign up by 2 p.m. 14th of March. Bet within 48 hours of race. Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie. Cars were able to get us out of these cities that were dirty. And that's been a longstanding thing.

You know, Thomas Jefferson said cities are a threat to the health, the wealth, and the liberty of man. And so we've always known that. And so as soon as people could get cars where they could commute to where they had to work at the job, they were all over that. But my entire life, I've heard these urban planners and these climate people, they joined forces and said, well, you know, we've got urban sprawl and we've got to stop that. I said, no, it's good. That's a good thing.

Just build the roads. We'll take care of it from here. But, uh, you know, I remember seeing the CEO of Lyft was actually by education. He was an urban planner and he had a, uh, a paper that he had done in college, uh, talking about how the most evil thing that man has ever invented is the automobile. And the best thing that man ever invented was the city. And I thought, wow, how upside down his worldview is. But that is the mentality. Yeah. And that has been the object of this crusade, which has been going on for at least 50 years.

And now it's coming out into the open. They're actually seeing what they've had in mind all along before they would couch it in things like emissions and mileage and all of that. But now they're just blatant about it and say, we want to get rid of cars. And they're actually pursuing and imposing policies designed to achieve that. Yeah, and adding taxes now, so much so that in the UK, the press is saying they're so eager to do what you and I have always said is going to happen.

All right, now it's a free ride. You can charge your car for free. You know, if you want to wait a long time to charge it, you can charge it for free. And there's no road tax on any of this stuff. I said, well, you know, that's not going to last. And so now they're saying, you know, we're going to start putting in these taxes and they're so high that now you've got the British press is doing tables and saying, well, with this new tax that they're going to add. And the fact that if you want to get it charged in a reasonable amount of time, you got to pay for it. How does that compare?

Even with a high cost of, you know, fuel, petrol and diesel as petrol, as they call it in the UK, even with that, they're looking at and say maybe this doesn't make any economic sense anymore and it's only going to get worse and then as we've seen already in california hey we got a problem with the grid because we've been shutting it down so um you know even though we've only got a small percentage of people who have evs and even in california let's stop and not charge them because we can't burden the grid so they're going to enforce that they're going to stop yeah we're right on the razor's edge and not charge them because we can't burden the grid. So they're going to enforce that. They're going to stop you. Yeah, we're right on the razor's edge. And my hope is that people are going to become aware. Enough people will become aware in time enough to call a halt to this.

And also, I wanted to go back for a moment just to this business of the toll roads and forcing people to pay twice. You know, we already pay every single time we put fuel in our vehicles. We pay one of the most regressive and disproportionate taxes that there is. But, you know, I actually don't have a big problem with that because, you know, that's kind of a use tax and it's anonymous. What they want to do is impose these tolls that are electronic and that are tied directly to you as a person, which will debit your credit card or your bank account and will also have the ability to track your movements that way. So it's something that is very sinister relative to the motor fuel stacks. I agree. And that always has been my main objection to it. And that is the privacy

intrusion. I remember in the early 1990s, when they started rolling these things out and in Holland, they pushed back on it, you know, because they started having these, well, you don't have to stop and pay somebody in cash at the toll booth. We don't want to have cash. We don't want to have toll booths. So you can just sip through and we'll track it for you, you know, and you get your little ID thing and we'll track all that stuff. And the people in Holland said at first they pushed back against this. They ultimately capitulated.

But at first they pushed back. And the reason they pushed back, Eric, was because they said, well, they were very jealous about their privacy at the time. Because this is early 1990s and people, you know, it was just nothing except in a dystopian sci-fi film could anybody imagine what they're doing to us today. But they said, I know we remember how that worked when in World War II, the Dutch government was obsessive about getting information and keeping information on everybody. And they had it on these little three by five cards. And they were so packed that when the Nazis invaded, they didn't want the Nazis having information about people's politics, about their religion, about other things that was all on those cards. And so they tried to set fire to them.

And they said the problem was that they were packed so densely that they wouldn't catch fire because, you know, it was like trying to light a log or something. And so they said the Nazis got all that information and they used it against people. And so we don't want you tracking our movements. But that's what this has all been about. This is what the creation of the Internet has been about

from the very beginning when you had In-Q-Tel. You know, CIA openly creates a venture capital firm because they want to track everything about you. We have met the Nazis and they is us, you know. Yeah, absolutely. And now, you know, they've had the benefit of, you know, 20 going on even 30 years of habituating the rising generations to this. You know, you and I and other middle-aged people can remember the before times, but kids who've grown up with the ubiquity of the Internet and of the lack of privacy are more comfortable with it,

and it's very alarming. You know, they don't appreciate the dark side to all of this technology that they've embraced for the sake of convenience. That's right. Yeah, we grew up, and it was this nightmare of being stopped in public, you know the sake of convenience. That's right. Yeah. We grew up and it was this, this nightmare of being stopped in public, you know, the great escape that you see it,

your identity papers, please. Right. Occupied territory. And yet that's what this is all about. And you're right. People have now, even people who didn't grow up under this are now getting accustomed to this.

They've moved the Overton window so far, so quickly. It's amazing. But the people who've never known a system where everything was anonymous, we had pay phones, for example, right? Yeah. You know, people who never experienced that really don't have a frame of reference. But even the people who had that have now become acclimated

to this constant surveillance and tracking. And they did a very good job during the pandemic of getting people to consider cash dirty a vector for disease spreading. Remember all the stores that would no longer even accept it. And that has become a fairly typical thing. I find that every other time that I go to my local supermarket they claim that the little checkout kiosks can't accept cash. And so you're effectively forced to use some form of electronic currency to make your purchase.

Wow. Wow. Yeah. I remember this whole war on drugs thing, where they would steal your cash by having the dog sniff it. It's like, oh, we smell some drugs on there. It's like, of course they do. They're ubiquitous.

They're everywhere. But yeah. I can make my dog bark on command, too. Exactly, exactly. So now they're going to roll this out. How do you cross-examine a German Shepherd? Maybe they'll have some virus-sniffing dogs. I could name them PCR1 and PCR2.

They're probably as good as the PCR thing of finding anything you train them to find. They probably can. At least as reliable. That's right, maybe more so. You know, there's an article on reason magazine about this tracking thing eric the federal government's plan to track truckers every movement is a privacy nightmare when i saw this i thought well they're already uh tracking commercial vehicles they got a lot of different ways that they track commercial trucks but it never ends they always have a new wrinkle there. And everybody needs to understand

that whatever they do to businesses right now, they always roll this stuff out with businesses first, but it's going to be coming for the individuals. This is where they're headed for everybody. Wireless transmitting location data, other personal information to police on demand. Now this is in the US and in the UK where they're rolling out these no-go zones unless you pay the big taxes and everything, that's exactly how they're going to enforce it there. They're rolling this stuff out first here on commercial vehicles. Yeah, it's such a sad thing, too, because at one time, being an over-the-road trucker was analogous to being a cowboy back in the 1870s. You know, you were out there on the open road, you were free, you were on your own schedule

in between stops, and as long as you made it to where you needed to be on time, everybody was happy, and that's how it worked. I know some people who drive commercially, and they are among the most regimented, parented, controlled people imaginable. The vehicles will squeal on them for going two or three miles an hour

over the speed limit, or if they accelerate too aggressively or brake too aggressively. I mean, it's insufferable. I could never be an over-the-road trucker these days. Yeah, the big brother is looking over your shoulder more and more all the time about everything. But it's not even just long-haul truckers. It's the delivery guys.

Look at Amazon and how they're harassed. Well, it's also coming to your next new vehicle. You know, I test drive new cars every week, so I get a preview, before many people do, of what they are going to make very common and very standard. And the cars, the new cars, almost all of them already have, to one degree or another, this type of technology embedded within them. And so it's really just a matter of making it mandatory, for example, that it gets reported to your insurance company or to the state,

you know, if you drive too aggressively or to accelerate too aggressively and all those kinds of things. That's right. And we've talked about that in the past. That's how they keep the newer generations in the EU from owning cars is through confiscatory insurance policy prices. So much so that it's not the cost of the car in the UK, for example, as much as it is the cost of the insurance where siblings will have to go into a partnership in order to be able to afford it. Because if you drive more than X number of miles, then your insurance goes sky high. So they have to say, well, you can't drive this thing more than X number of miles.

And so they have to work out between the siblings just exactly how far each of them are going to drive. It's just amazing to see how everything the government does is about surveillance. It's about control. It's about rationing of resources. And of course that's all to take everything away from us. So we own nothing. And you know, the thing that psychologically, I guess that, that interests me about all of this is that there's apparently no spirit of rebellion in any of this. When I was that age, we all fought it. We did everything we could to get around it.

I remember making fake IDs, for example, so I could buy beer when I was 16. You probably have the same memories. And we wanted a car that was our own so that we could get away from being controlled by parents. We did all those things. And now they just sort of supinely and passively and insouciantly accept all of this stuff. And I can't fathom it.

Well, I think it's, you know, we're talking about the differences in child raising and stuff. I had a story just a couple of weeks ago about a mother whose life was basically ruined. I mean, she's a single mom and she told her son, you know, there were just a couple blocks from home. You can walk home, and the nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, calls the cops and everything. They do the home thing. They take her kid away from her for a while. They put her in jail for a while.

But they completely destroyed her ability to work with kids. They labeled her as abusive and everything, just because her kid walked home a couple blocks. So they're told that they don't want to be outside. They don't want to be out on their own. And they criminalize that kind of behavior. They do everything to keep us inside and glued to the TV monitor. So they don't look at that.

You're talking about how we were always looking for ways that we could get independence. I mean, cause that's, you know, when I was a kid, we were, you know, kind of free range kids is what they would call them today. Uh, and I would drive, ride my bike for miles, uh, just cause I wanted to go somewhere, you know, kind of free range kids is what they would call them today. Uh, and I would drive, you know, ride my bike for miles, uh, just because I wanted to go somewhere, you know? And so I was looking at, uh, early age. Oh, I could get a motorcycle before I could get a car. It's cheaper and I can get the license license before that and everything.

So, you know, I was looking at ways that I could go further, you know, and that was my experience as well. I remember being eight years old, and I and all of my friends, the same age group, as soon as we got home from school, we jumped on our bikes. That's right. And we went and had adventures, and we did what we wanted to do, and there were no parents around. That's right. Other than in a vague sense, the parents might be looking out the window and just seeing if there's any problem. But we were allowed to just free range as long as we were home by supper. That was the general rule. And as you say, you know, you, you got to be 12, 13 years old and you started thinking

about a dirt bike, maybe, and maybe you got a dirt bike. And then after that, you were champing at the bit to get your first car and you were probably cutting grass and doing whatever odd jobs you could so that you could afford that car by the time you turned 16. That's right. That was, that was the ubiquitous experience of everybody in our generation. That's exactly what it was. Yeah, but if you had kids who acted like the little rascals, they would probably publicly execute their parents. Yeah, it's really tragic.

There's an even worse case, which I'm sure you're familiar with. I can't recall which state it was, but it was a woman who had the audacity to let her child play in their own backyard. And she was inside the house was a woman who had the audacity to let her child play in their own backyard. And she was inside the house. She was present in the house. The kid was out in the yard and, you know, she, she turned away for a while to cook or whatever it was she was doing. And some Gladys Kravitz person called the cops. And as you say, you know, this becomes the basis for painting that, that parent as some kind of a negligent or even abusive parent. And that becomes a life ruiningruining event.

That's right. Yeah, especially taking your kids away. Let's talk a little bit about, we're talking about the trucks and tracking the truck. Yep. And Elon Musk put out, tweeted out that his Tesla Semi has completed its first 500-mile journey with a full load. Now, this is something. It's a full load, all is something now all right a lot of batteries and you know i thought it was interesting because i've covered this before and i said okay so they got to get 500 miles is you know reasonable range they need to have a longer range for these things so

you don't have to stop as often yeah but i've talked about this it's like what is it going to take to charge this thing up and i know he's you know, another level of charger there that's going to charge it even faster, which is going to make it more likely to catch fire, by the way. Absolutely. And, you know, that's just going to enhance the fire risk. And you think about what a big fire that's going to be with that kind of giant battery. But when I look at this, it says, well, you know, the whole thing was 81,000 pounds. But of course, that 81,000 pounds is going to include the weight of the truck itself and its batteries.

So you've lost some payload there. But I think the sleight of hand in all of this is that he did it on a 500-mile journey without having to stop for a charge. And I think that's really where the issue is going to be on these trucks. What do you think about this? And just about the physics of it. The other half of it is that while Elon Musk may be able to design, build a fast charger that could hypothetically recharge one of those big rigs in, let's say, a half an hour,

where's the power going to come from to do that? Yeah. Oh, yeah, exactly. You're talking about orders of's the power going to come from to do that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, you start... You're talking about orders of magnitude, too, when you're thinking about a truck stop. It's not just one truck. Let's just postulate, for the sake of discussion, a typical truck stop where you've got a dozen

of these rigs waiting to charge up. And the power demands that that would impose... I had an article about this the other day, and this was referencing some stats from some of the energy providers. It would require a power output comparable to that necessary to power a massive factory or a small town. Wow. And that's going to be another excuse to say, you can't use your car because we've got to reserve all the electricity on this diminished grid for the truckers. Because, you know, now everything's got all these different links in the supply chain for the just-in-time delivery.

And so now that we have banned all the diesel trucks and we've banned everything and everybody's got to charge all their transportation off the grid, we don't have enough for you guys. We got to do the trucks first. That's another excuse they're going to use to shut down private transportation. And by the way, too, you know, this is another aspect of this, that people who are, you know, on the fence and just want to come down on the side of right, you know, in fact, should consider, which is that if they were being honest about what their goal is, you know, they claim, well, we just want to convert everything to electricity and we're going to have the same kind of functioning system that we had

before. It's just going to be clean and electric. Why is it that they are doing everything they can to prevent an increase in the generating capacity of the grid as by allowing new nuclear power plants to be constructed that could at least actually provide the necessary electricity that would be required for that to happen? Yeah, that's the big tell, the nuclear power. If this is about emissions, they don't have any reason not to have nuclear power plants, right? That's another clue that it's not about emissions. And they just don't want you to have power.

And that's all that there is about that. They're going to shut down the grid. You and I have talked about that for the longest time. We saw this coming years ago. They're going to force everybody to switch over to something that doesn't have capacity doesn't work. It's too expensive.

And there's not going to be any electricity on the grid to charge any of these electric vehicles, but everything else is going to be banned. Uh, and, and that includes, you know, it's not just the cars and the trucks in New York city, they're banning any kind of heating for your home or your apartment that isn't electric. So, you know, it's going to be everything, putting everything on the grid because they banning any kind of heating for your home or your apartment that isn't electric. So, you know, it's going to be everything, putting everything on the grid because they can control everything from the grid. That's what it's about.

Yep. They can impose energy rationing, which has real consequences for people. It's not just a matter of comfort and convenience. You know, if you haven't got electricity and your house has a heat pump as its only source of heat, you could potentially freeze to death. You know, in the summer, if you don't have electricity to power the air conditioning and you're older and those high heat days can be lethal. And of course, if, you know, the refrigerator isn't on, your food goes bad.

So these things have real world repercussions and people really ought to be aware of what they are. That's right. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about the good old days. You got an article, a look Back for a Company with No Future. I really like that. And you talk about, you said last year there was a holiday ride about an old widower and his also old car, a 66 Impala SS.

This year it's Mrs. Hayes, an old widow, and her even older car, a 57 Chevy Nomad. GM hasn't made cars like either of these, stylish or big V8s under the hood. So, you know, they look back at a time when there was amazing diversity and options and affordability and all these other things. I remember, you know, people would change cars like every three years or something like that, right? Yeah, because they could afford to. Yeah, exactly. Isn't it interesting, though, that GM can't come up with anything to say that's emotionally

involving about anything new that it has to offer. So it has to reach back decades to find a car that people actually did connect with and desperately hope that people will think, oh yeah, I remember my 57 Nomad. Maybe I should go out and buy an electric GM Bolt. Exactly. Yeah, that's a big thing around here, you know, around the Pigeon Forge area. They will have frequent auto shows. It used to be every time we'd come over from North Carolina, there was something that was happening. People with classic cars.

One year, they had a DeLorean convention, and that was really cool. We didn't know that was happening. We'd just show up, and all of a sudden, I had never seen a DeLorean in real life in person ever before. And all of a sudden, you know, there's like 50 of them all over the place. You know, you can see inside of them, but they have all these classic cars and everybody's got a great attachment to them because they have character. They have diversity. They have diversity of, of everything, styling, color, you name it. Now everything is like, you know, on a scale, it's on a gray scale.

You can have an occasional red car. It's an anodyne appliance. Yeah's on a gray scale yeah it is cars were once more than that and you know to get back to our discussion about mobility that that correlates with it closely you got you know you began to feel affection for your car your car became part of your family and your history and that all intertwined to make you made you want to keep it and to get another one what they succeeded in doing is turning cars into toasters. And who cares about a toaster? You throw it away when it doesn't work anymore. That's right. Yeah, you talked about how it was a vehicle for our generation for independence and adulthood.

But it was also when I was a child, you know, it was see the USA in a Chevrolet. And so, you know, that's what we did. There was no interstate system. And it became a real adventure and a real challenge for my parents to go after each other. Yeah. He's like, oh, wait a minute. Where's that turn? It's not on the map and all the rest of this stuff. We would pack a picnic lunch because there were no chain foods. Places like McDonald's did not exist at that point in time. And so you kind of pack your lunch because it was hit or miss if you stopped at the restaurants and you really didn't have a way to check out reviews of them.

And so it was a real adventure. You know, I really missed that. I've done that. Karen and I did across, well, halfway across the country. We went back to Florida from Texas. And we, you know, didn't have a paper map, but we told the thing to keep us off the interstate. And that makes for an interesting drive. And so it was really kind of like an old trip in many ways.

Of course, you know, the chains were still everywhere, all the same food places everywhere. But, you know, that's a big part of the nostalgia of it. But it was a vehicle that was associated with independence and freedom and vacations and travel and all the rest of the stuff. That is why they're trying to make our world very, very small, limit us to these 200, 300 square foot apartments inside a smart city that's watching everything that we do. Yes, also there was a kind of democratization of affluence, if you like.

Look at vehicles like that 57 Nomad and the 66 Impala. These were big vehicles with V8 engines. You know, the kinds of things that were inconceivable in Europe. You know, in Europe, they were driving around little BMW I said as if they were lucky. And a lot of them were, of course, riding trains and the buses. And, you know, in Europe, that kind of thing, you had to be really rich to afford something like a Mercedes with a V8. Whereas the average American, a plumber, you know, a kid right out of college in the 60s could buy a GTO. And that's all been given away for the sake of appeasing these virtue-signaling neurotic people.

And it's just absolutely a tragedy. You've got a line here in your article, and you say, even as recently as 1979, GM's Pontiac division was selling almost as many Firebirds, just that one model, the Firebird, as GM sold of everything it sells in the second quarter of this year. They're putting themselves out of business and they're just fine with it. They don't see themselves as a car company. We've talked about this many times. We want to be a mobility company.

We want to have a duopoly of rent-by-the-ride transportation, don't they? It's this ESG stuff. It no longer matters whether you're making a profit and you're providing things that people actually want to buy. It's all about signaling virtue. You probably caught that Biden the other day changed the regulatory regime such that these fiduciaries that are in charge of people's 401ks now no longer have to consider whether this is in the best interest of

the people who have these 401ks if it furthers the virtue signaling of whatever the ESG is. That's right, because he's got some state attorneys general who are out there saying, you know, you have a responsibility under the law to maximize the stockholders' money. They don't want stockholders, they want stakeholders, and they want to have this ESG stuff. But there was a line of attack that was opening up, saying you're violating your fiduciary trust and your responsibility by not focusing on money, because that's the way you sold yourself to these people.

I still think that even if he does something like that, I think it would be a good court case, because you can't come in and grab people's money and then change the way that you're doing business, you know, in a legitimate way. It's a fraudulent thing to do. You shouldn't be able to. I mean, after all, this is a contractual arrangement. You know, you can't just withdraw your money without penalty either. You've committed.

You've put your money into this investment fund. And so you've done so on the assumption that, you know, the conditions that obtained when you put your money in would continue to exist for the duration of the time that the money was held there. And then they just, you know, they pull the rug out from under you and say you lose. And by the way, you know, your portfolio is suddenly worth 40% less. That's right. You know, you and I have talked about the different changes that are happening to vehicles. A lot of them not for the better uh there was article out of the uk saying hand brakes are set to disappear from cars this decade as brands switch to electric yeah they got a lot of people saying give me a break we can't get a break out right

yeah they already have there are very few new vehicles that still have a pull-up emergency brake and i like to use that word rather than parking brake because I think it is important to make that distinction. The electronic brake, it's a little button that you push and the thing cinches up electronically using servos, but you have no ability to modulate or control it. Whereas with a pull-up emergency brake, if there's an emergency, if you have brake failure, you can pull that up and you can gradually modulate the pressure on it to prevent the wheels from locking up and so on. So it's a safety device. And it's interesting that the same government that constantly tells us

it ululates about safety when it wants to impose something on us is studiously indifferent when it comes to something that genuinely is a safety issue. That's right. And as you point out many times, you know, the cost to repair this electronic brake is very, very expensive. This article from the UK is saying, uh, 2,800 pounds, uh, to repair an electronic brake system for a Range Rover sport, uh, instead of having something that is cheaper, mechanical, more reliable, uh, useful in an emergency. And, you know, if you, uh, learn how to do it, you can

do Rockford's with it. Yes. And that's something else they don't want you to do. Yeah, there's a pattern here, isn't there? They're systematically taking away your ability to control the car. The car now controls you through electronics and features that you can't turn off. You know, it's just the peremptory. You know, there's no wheel slip allowed. The traction control comes on. The ABS is on.

All of these things are on. And soon it's going to be advanced speed limit assist so that if you, you know, dare to drive any faster than what the totem by the side of the road says, you know, the brakes will be applied and the throttle dialed back. That's right. Yeah, there's, you know, I know we don't have Citroën here. We don't have any French cars. They have failed in the marketplace. We talk about Renault or Peugeot or Citroën. But they have one in the in the uk and it's

similar to what um you know we've talked about in the past how in france uh you could get these little starter cars right yep and there'd be a cheap starter car for uh teenagers because it's not technically a car so a 16 year old could drive it legally you know i mean i was driving a low speed short hop car yeah that's right i was driving at 15 actually and then at 16 i had my own car but you know now that's a novelty you know it's using like a firearm or something but um the uh now that is coming into the uk and so people are saying oh well you know they're they're desperate for something that they can afford they're trying to uh this review the guy's trying to oh well you know they're they're desperate for something that they can afford they're trying to this review the guy's trying to oh could you live with this thing on a daily basis because it is so incredibly small but it's very cheap you know it's only about uh 2.4 meters long so we're talking

about six about nine feet long or something i guess and uh very very tiny and but this one now is of course an electric and that's why they're doing an article on it. Because, oh, look, now we've got a small electric thing, and it's only got a range of 46 miles. And it can't go any faster than 30 miles per hour. This is like a golf cart or something. Well, yeah, and that's what they want us all in if we're not on foot or pedaling. That's right, yeah. So what are some of the cars that you're looking at reviewing on your site that you've seen that are interesting? Well, I still have the 23 Toyota Tacoma, which is my favorite of all the midsize trucks on the market for two principal reasons.

One being that you can still get it with a V6 engine, and the other being that you can get a manual transmission with that V6 engine. And when I tell people that the Tacoma is the last truck, period, whether full-sized, mid-sized, or smaller, that you can still get with a manual transmission, they're floored. But it's the truth. Wow. I didn't know that they were doing that. Yeah. But Toyota has made a move a little bit more towards the manuals, you know, the sports cars that we talked about. I didn't know they were doing that with a pickup truck either.

But that's very important. You know, I think a lot of the problem with that electric pickup truck and the battery just, you know, dying whenever they tried to tow anything, I think a lot of that was because of not having gearing, you know? So I think it's really important to have the gears to be able to tow, to be able to get out of, you know, a situation where you need traction, that type of thing. But, of course, you know, this is not an electric vehicle, but still, that's an important thing, the gearing. So I didn't know they had a manual. That's cool. Also, simplicity and control.

You know, as a driver, you have much more control over the vehicle and how it performs and how it operates when you determine when the gears are going to shift. A lot of cars with automatics, and they've got these paddle shifters and this pretended manual shift control, but only within certain parameters. The thing will automatically force an upshift or even a downshift, depending on the circumstances, so it's illusory. But when you have a manual, you're in full control of the vehicle. And the manual is a completely simple mechanical device. It doesn't rely on electronics. It's much more long-lived inherently for that reason. And it's much more

repairable. You know, you may have to put a clutch in it at some point, but that's a relatively affordable thing as opposed to spending three, four, even $5,000 or more on a new automatic transmission. That's right. That's right. Yeah. When my daughter started driving, I said, I'll give you $500 if you'll buy towards a car, if you'll buy a manual, uh, because I wanted her to do that. I knew that, um, yeah, I knew she was going to have a problem focusing and, um, you know, and I found from my own experience that it's easier for me to focus on my driving when I'm doing a, a manual rather than automatic, just that little bit of, uh, you know, forget

about all the rest of these bells and whistles that they put on cars. But just that thing, an automatic transmission makes it easier for my mind to drift, for me not to pay as much attention as I do when I'm driving a manual. When I drive a manual, I am focused on what I'm doing. Yeah, and I think that's especially important for new teenage drivers because, you know, they are teenagers. That's right. And they get distracted more easily, and they don't have the experience and the skill set that adults have uh you know which compensates for the automatic yeah um particularly nowadays with the cell phones and the ubiquity of texting all the time it's very hard to do that while you're driving the car with a manual transmission so for that reason alone i you know i strongly encourage any parents listening to this to do as you did and encourage their kids just to learn how

to drive with a stick shift car all the. All the phone, especially that's a real important point. You know, that's such a distracting thing. You cannot talk on the phone and play with the phone, texting and all that kind of stuff while you got a manual transmission and also a cup, you know, where we're so drawn to the fact that we're always drinking in a car and that type of thing, uh, with a manual transmission makes it difficult for you to get a drink. Um, you know, they still have cupholders. You know, when German cars were still made for people who actually liked to drive,

one of the complaints the car press used to level with them was that there weren't any cupholders or that they were inadequate. Yeah, that's right. And that's the complaint that they have against the latest generation of Miata. You know, there's like, where are the cupholders? It's like, this is about driving. The plug-in thing that you plug into that slot on the console. It's hilarious.

I know. Yeah, it's kind of, all right, all right. We'll kind of retro something. If they've got to have something there, we'll put that there for the American market. I wanted to get in one more thought, though, on the Tacoma, which people should be aware of. And that is that it's going to be redesigned in 2024. And I think it's probable, maybe even likely, that at the very least the manual transmission is probably going to go away and it's possible that the V6 may go away. Toyota got rid of the

V8 in the Tundra, which used to be standard. The Tundra is their half-ton truck, and replaced it with a 3.5 liter V6 with twin turbos and a mild hybrid setup, which they had to do. It wasn't because the market wanted that. It's because the regulatory regime is getting to be so cumbersome that you simply cannot meet the standards without resorting to these artifices and so if you like a truck that's simple that has a v6 and a manual transmission you might want to look at that tacoma before they're gone yeah we got cars now being designed by nancy pelosi chuck schumer and joe bottom you know that's that's the sad thing about this and all the bureaucrats that they've got lined up with them. Yeah, it wasn't that long ago that you and I were laughing about the absurdity of the electric Dodge Charger or Challenger.

Maybe, I don't know if they still. With a sound box. With a sound box, right? And now they're doing this in the UK even with a little fiat abarth right yep it sounds sporty and so they're actually putting a little sound box on the electric abarth which is the uh you know the the performance version of the little 500 yeah yeah you know people who have dogs will know about this. If you have a male dog, you know, you could take your dog in to get, as they put it, fixed, neutered. There's a product, not making this up, called neuticles, you know, which are fake,

you know, they're fake testicles that you can, and their slogan is looking and feeling the same. And, and, and that's how I feel about the, about the voice box coming out of the pathetic electric car. Yeah, it is so, it is so funny to see this, but yeah, that's something I feel about the voice box coming out of the pathetic electric car. Yeah, it is so funny to see this. But, yeah, that's something that they talked about for a long time. They said, you know, it's going to be a, we're going to have to have, not just for the market to make people, you know, feel good about driving their car or whatever or feel sporty. But just they said, well, they're silent and they're going to sneak up on pedestrians. And so there was all this talk for a while. What kind of sounds are they going to do?

Is it going to be like the Jetsons Tweety Bird or something, you know? It's like, what are they going to do to warn people that a car is coming up when it's silent, you know, and you can't hear it? Did you know that the Tesla has a built-in fart sound? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, it has a whole menu of sounds that you can dial up to suit your mood, and one of them is a farting sound. Oh, great. And that's on the outside?

People get to hear that on the outside, I guess. Yeah. Isn't that great? Well, you know, when I had my first car, I put several horns on it. It was a Mustang, so I found a horn that would whinny like a Mustang. And I had another one that had like a minor third, had three notes. It was like a C, D, and E flat. So I could do the European, you know, the French police.

You know, that type of thing. And I had an Uga horn. So I had, you know, I played with stuff like that. So, yeah, I can get it that people would do. But that was also a cheaper car. That was something that I'd paid 60 to $90,000 for. Well, and it was a farce. Yeah, a farce.

Now, you know, this air zaps reality that they're trying to foist on us in so many different ways. It's demoralizing and depressing. You know, it just makes you want to tuck your tail and go hide in a closet somewhere. I mean, I wouldn't be caught dead driving one of these electric things that makes some kind of fraudulent noise to make me think I'm driving something that's got character and a soul. Yeah. You got a flatulent tire that you need to change it. You got a spare. Uh, so you got another article. Why you can't buy what you can't buy for $2,700 anymore. Talk about that. Yeah, I have a lot of car models, being kind of a car maniac.

And so one of my models is of a 71 Dodge Demon, which was kind of a hot rod version of the ordinary Dodge Dart, which was an economy car in its time. And I looked it up and I found that you could have bought in 1971 a Demon for about $2,700, which works out to about $20,000 in today's money. And that would have gotten you a V8 powered muscle car that was a mid-sized car by modern standards. And, you know, the reason it was affordable, one of the reasons it was affordable was because back in those days, there was a lot of transferability. You know, the Dart was rear wheel drive and it was affordable was because back in those days, there was a lot of transferability. You know, the Dart was rear-wheel drive, and it was designed to accommodate a V8 engine, so it was a relatively simple thing to just take off-the-shelf parts and upgrade it and put them in there and then offer that for sale. You can't do that with modern economy cars because they're

all front-wheel drive, and, you know, you couldn't put an engine in there without re-engineering the entire car, and then it gets really prohibitively expensive so essentially you've been priced out of the market of these affordable fun cars you know it's something that i harp on all the time because i think it's important to harp on it yeah oh yeah absolutely yeah i stopped i think about the kind of diversity of cars we had all different shapes and sizes i had a friend who had a little tiny Opel GT. Remember those? Looked like a miniature Corvette. Yeah, sure, with a little hood bulge and everything. Yeah, it's like a miniature. I shrunk up a Corvette at the time. I had another friend

who had, you remember they came out with, Richard Petty came out with that Superbird or something like that that he had, right? Yeah, with the wing and the shovel nose. Yeah, it had the massive wing on the back and the and the thing on the front it's like this prosthetic nose or something you know

for for a drag and i had a friend in high school his dad bought him uh the the super bird thing that was um you know it had a roadrunner on it and things like that we were all just gobsmacked that uh you know what what in the world? I mean, it was so ostentatious. That was designed for, you know, the 200-mile-an-hour Talladega. Yeah, and you're driving it to school back and forth and trying to navigate corners with this, like, three-foot thing on the front of the car and this gigantic wing on the back.

I was like, what is that? But, you know, everybody had— But you're right, though. There were so many interesting cars, you know, of the many that I could call, you know, that called to mind from my own past. I had a buddy in high school and his dad had a Sunbeam Alpine Tiger. Do you know what that is?

Oh yeah, yeah. I've seen that. Didn't James Bond drive that in one of the early things, a Sunbeam? He may have. You know, it's not as well known as the Shelby Cobra, but very similar concept. They took a British sports car, the Sunbeam Alpine, and they put a little Ford V8 in the thing. And it was feasible to do that again back in those days because you didn't have all of these car-specific computers. You didn't have to worry about getting it through the gamut of regulatory compliance.

The manufacturer could just say, hey, it would be fun to put a V8 in this thing. Let's do it and see if it'll sell. Exactly, yeah, I know. Well, they still do do that some people do it after market with miatas you know you got the flying miata guys and they'll shove a v8 into miata and i i don't know it's not not what i would necessarily be into because then you got to change the uh the transmission out and um you know that's one of the nice things there goes the you know the normal brilliant weight balance that defines that car's incredible handling. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so it messes up some of the things that makes it unique.

But yeah, there's still people out there who will do it. But they had a real hard time with this fourth generation because everything was so computerized and electronic. And, you know, they had done it for the first three generations. It got a little bit difficult with the third one, even though they had more room just because of connectivity. But then when it came into the, you know, the electronic bus and all the rest of this stuff, everything was, you know, it was a giant programming issue. It was no longer a mechanical thing to do that. People don't realize until they find out the hard way that even something is, you know, you would assume simple as a power window. Let's say your power window fails, you know, in the past, it would be, well, okay, we need a new motor, or, you know, you need to fix a wiring.

Now it's part of a body control module, and it's a whole elaborate and specific to that particular car kerfuffle that only a dealer, generally speaking, can deal with. That's right. You were talking earlier about the Tacoma having a stick shift and everything. You've also got a review about the Honda Ridgeline, which I thought was kind of interesting. I've always thought that was an interesting concept, as you point out. It's

not like a traditional pickup truck. It's got a smaller bed, but it's got a lot of bells and whistles and things like that. What do you think about the new Honda Ridgeline? Oh, I like it a lot. You know, it's the perfect truck for somebody who needs one but doesn't really want one. You know, meaning that while it looks like a truck, it's based on essentially a car-type platform. It's all-wheel drive. It's very closely related to the Honda Pilot. They basically put a custom body on the Honda Pilot. And because it isn't a truck, it's got a much more usable bed.

It doesn't have the big, solid rear axle leaf spring setup that you'd have in a typical truck in the back. And so for that reason, even though it's mid-sized, you can lay a four by eight sheet flat in the bed because it doesn't have the big humps for the wheel wells and for the suspension that you'd find in a typical truck. And Honda's really clever. There's an additional storage bed that's lockable and weathertight underneath the main bed. And you can pull a 5,000 pound trailer with the thing. That's plenty for most people. It's more than most cars. It's a very versatile, very usable vehicle. I love it. And it's got the V6 engine that you used to be able to get in the Accord, but you can't anymore. And they had some unusual things too, didn't they?

Like some hidden compartments down in the bed and things, refrigerated things. What kind of bells and whistles do they have on that? Yeah, multiple things like that. All sorts of factory and then dealer available options to make it suit your particular purpose. It is a very useful vehicle without being a truck. Not everybody needs a full-frame vehicle with the weight and, generally speaking, poor gas mileage and the trucking handling. I mean, I personally like it. I own trucks, but a lot of people don't like that feel, and it's also not as jacked up. Now, this I do like.

You can stand next to that Ridgeline, and you can reach easily into the bed, and you can remove stuff that you put in the bed, which is becoming very difficult with these new generation trucks that are all jacked up and steroidal and very difficult to use, even if you're a really tall galoot like me. Yeah. Well, you know, I think they get extra points for just trying to design something. You know what I'm saying? That takes it beyond just being an appliance.

You know, they're actually thinking about it and trying to come up with something that's unique. So that's kind of what you're saying. Before we end, I'm almost afraid to ask, but what are the prices for the Honda Ridgeline and the Tacoma? What are you looking at? The Tacoma is more affordable, considerably more affordable. You can get, I think the base trim is just under $28,000. I think it's $27,000 and change, which is really reasonable for a new

truck. And by the way, also dimensionally, if you look at the Tacoma specs in terms of things like length and so on, it's very, very close to what a half-ton truck used to be back in the 90s. So if you are kind of put off by the way half-ton trucks, modern ones, have been supersized, they're a bit too much for you, they're a bit too much for me, you might really want to look at that Tacoma. Now, the Ridgeline's more expensive, but it's also more generously equipped. It comes standard with all-wheel drive. It comes standard with more amenities.

I think it's about $38,000 base price. But, you know, in today's market, that's not too out of hand either. Yeah. Yeah. You talk about supersizing trucks. You know, when I pull up at a stoplight in my Miata and one of the supersized trucks pulls up behind me, it's like, can they even see me? I mean, it's amazing how tall they are. It's amazing. I mean, they're just going to, if I get in an accident, they're just going to drive straight over me. The most striking thing, you know, if you have the opportunity to view a current half-ton truck parked next to any half-ton truck from the 90s or even the early 2000s, you'll get a sense of just how huge they've become. Yeah, yeah.

Well, that's their selling point. You know, everybody wants to get higher than the next person., they, they feel like that conveys some sense of safety to them. And I guess as long as the thing is not a top heavy, if they've got some, um, you know, something to assist with, um, uh, the steering issue. So it doesn't flip over. I think they've, uh, I don't know. The miracle is these things handle better than the sports cars of the seventies. They're very easy to drive. They're just not that easy to park. That's right. That's right.

Well, it is always interesting to talk to you, Eric, your wealth of information in terms of what's going on in transportation right now and with Liberty. I would suggest to everybody, take a look at epautos.com. You will find a lot of stuff. If you love mobility and freedom, you're going to find a soulmate there with Eric. I've always enjoyed talking to you, Eric. Thank you. Appreciate it.

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