Ep. 549 When Government Fixes Things, It Creates New Problems: The Case of Automobiles
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Eric Peters returns to the show, to discuss unintended consequences of automobile regulation, interesting new innovations, and how government's attempts to fix things create an array of new problems.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 549. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey, everybody, here's a great opportunity for an ambitious entrepreneur. |
| 0:17.0 | Create mobile apps for local businesses. |
| 0:19.7 | It's easy to do using Zapable, and nobody else is going to be approaching businesses in |
| 0:24.8 | your town with proposals for mobile apps, so you've got the field to yourself. |
| 0:29.6 | But make sure and grab it before midnight, because today, December 7, 2015, is the last day to grab it before the price increase. |
| 0:37.5 | Pick it up at tomwoods.com slash zap. Hello, away. 2015 is the last day to grab it before the price increase. |
| 0:40.4 | Pick it up at tomwoods.com slash zap. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello and welcome to another week of the Tom Woods show. |
| 0:48.9 | Yes, the debate is over, and I'm going to tell you all about it after my conversation with Eric Peters. |
| 0:49.8 | Now, of course, if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, or you get my newsletter, you |
| 0:53.8 | already know how the debate came out, or if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, or you get my newsletter, you already know how |
| 0:54.9 | the debate came out, or if you read the political theater, was it the political theater blog or |
| 0:59.8 | the regular Lou Rockwell.com blog? I think it was the regular Lou Rockwell blog. You'll know how |
| 1:04.9 | the debate came out. My debate with Michael Malice on the subject of Alexander Hamilton, but I'm |
| 1:09.7 | going to hold off on that and tell you all about it after my conversation with Eric Peters. Eric Peters visits us periodically |
| 1:16.4 | because he is the libertarian authority on automobiles. And he's not just a libertarian authority |
| 1:24.1 | on automobiles. He's an authority on automobiles. He knows everything there is to know |
| 1:28.5 | about them. He knows everything there is to know about the new models. He knows everything there is to know |
| 1:32.6 | about how they're powered, how they work, how different types of fuel work. He knows about ethanol. |
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