Ep. 347 What Government Is Doing to Cars
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Issues Discussed
- Tesla: crony capitalism?
- What’s the $9800 car we’re not allowed to buy?
- Can I build my own car to avoid government regulation?
- What about private highways?
- How often does a modern car need an oil change?
- What are some areas of car maintenance most people neglect?
- What kind of damage does ethanol do?
- Why do labor and supplies at the dealership cost more than at a third-party provider?
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Articles Mentioned
“The Fumes of the Founding”
“GM’s $9800 Car…The One We’re Not Allowed to Buy”
“Neglected Maintenance”
“Machine Gunning a Tesla”
Related Episodes
Ep. 259: Cars, Government Regulation, and More (Eric Peters)
Ep. 241: Government and Your Car (Eric Peters)
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.8 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 347. I'm back from the cruise. I'm refreshed and ready to go with some fresh new episodes for you guys. I spent a lot of time talking to Bob Murphy on this cruise. We roomed together, as a matter of fact. And in fact, one morning we were eating breakfast, and before we knew it, it had turned into lunch, so we kept the same table and we started eating lunch. |
| 0:57.1 | We talked about projects we can do together. |
| 0:59.6 | We talked about the courses that he's going to do for Liberty Classroom.com. |
| 1:04.1 | It's really going to be a great year. |
| 1:06.0 | So I enjoyed that. |
| 1:07.9 | But now, as I say, I am back, and today we welcome back to the show, |
| 1:11.3 | Eric Peters, of Eric Petersotos.com. You can get there even more easily via eP.audos.com. |
| 1:19.5 | Eric is a libertarian, a journalist, and an expert when it comes to cars and motorcycles, |
| 1:25.8 | and government, and technology, all these related issues. So I solicited |
| 1:31.2 | some questions for him, and here we go. So let me turn things over now to my conversation with |
| 1:36.8 | the great Eric Peters. Show notes page for today is tomwoods.com slash 347. Here we go. |
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