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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1133 The State Keeps Messing With Your Car (But the Car Companies Can Be Annoying, Too)

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Whether you're a car enthusiast or not, you have to love Eric Peters: insanely knowledgeable and thoroughly libertarian. We have a lot to discuss today: nanny-ish new cars, the consequences of federal regulation, the "mobile driver's license" and the privacy issues involved, the Jeep we're allowed to buy but not drive, and a lot more.

Show notes for Ep. 1133

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1133.

0:03.5

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.1

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.3

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0:19.7

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0:28.8

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0:31.4

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here, talking once again to our friend Eric Peters, who brings us up to date

0:36.8

periodically on what is going on

0:39.3

in the world of cars and libertarianism. Eric is an expert on automobiles. I don't know what

0:45.9

else to say. He just knows everything about everything. And he is a hardcore Rothbardian libertarian,

0:52.7

and you put that together, and that is a heck of a

0:55.0

combination. And I can't tell you how many people have said, I am not a car enthusiast, so I

1:00.6

didn't think I would like the Eric Peters episodes, and they turn out to be absolutely outstanding,

1:05.3

because it's just fascinating to listen to Eric, and he's such a good guy, and I'm just so happy

1:10.0

to have him on for yet another update from the world of cars. Eric, and he's such a good guy, and I'm just so happy to have him on for yet another update

1:12.5

from the world of cars. Eric, welcome back. Good to be back, Tom. Thanks for having me. It's been

1:18.1

quite a while, and glad to talk to you about a bunch of libertarian topics related to cars.

1:23.5

But I'd like to start off with your impression of the 2018 model year, given that I know you test drive a lot of cars and you've written a bunch of posts about a lot of cars.

1:33.6

And I guess I've asked you in the few years that we've been doing this, I always ask things like, are there any new, are there any surprises this year, anything that's a lot better or a lot worse or a dark horse kind of car that just snuck up on you?

1:49.0

Anything interesting you can share with us?

1:51.6

Yeah, there's a general trend toward very small and heavily turbocharged engines that are being put into large vehicles.

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