Ep. 515 The VW Emissions Scandal, and More Car Issues for Libertarians
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Eric Peters is the libertarian authority on cars, and writes at EPAutos.com. We discussed the VW issue, the $5000 SUV Americans aren't allowed to buy, a court case in New Jersey that allows the police to search your car no matter what you're stopped for, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 515. |
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| 0:29.9 | Welcome to another episode of the Tom Woods show. Today we're talking to our old friend Eric Peters. We haven't spoken to him in quite some time. |
| 0:37.2 | Eric knows more about cars. In fact, I don't spoken to him in quite some time. Eric knows more about |
| 0:38.4 | cars. In fact, I don't even know how to finish that sentence. He knows so much about cars. I don't |
| 0:43.7 | even know how to compare him to anything. Not only does he know the technology involved, |
| 0:48.6 | but he knows the connection between cars and government policy, how government policy has |
| 0:53.3 | deformed the automobile |
| 0:55.2 | industry, has harmed the general public. He also talks about the civil liberties angle in terms |
| 1:01.0 | of privacy and your car. We're going to be hitting on that a little bit today with regard to a |
| 1:06.5 | rather disturbing court case coming out of New Jersey. Of course, we also want to talk about |
| 1:10.8 | the VW fiasco with the emissions policy and all that. A lot of rather disturbing court case coming out of New Jersey. Of course, we also want to talk about the |
| 1:10.9 | VW fiasco with the emissions policy and all that. A lot of great stuff to talk about. You definitely |
| 1:16.7 | want to check him out at Eric Petersotos.com, or better yet use the shortcut, simply E.P.A.O.S.com. |
| 1:25.6 | Eric provides tremendous value to his readers for free. You should support him, |
| 1:30.8 | of course, be a good person and send him a donation. He does tremendous work. It's just incredible. |
| 1:36.9 | Every time there's a story in the news regarding cars, you know Eric's on it. So you don't have to worry |
| 1:40.7 | about it. Just go to e.p.otO.com and get his analysis. Great, great |
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