EVs — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Electric vehicles are often seen as one of the answers to climate change. Ditch gas-powered cars and trucks for electric, and the carbon footprint will be smaller, right? Not so fast. As iconic talk show host Larry Elder explains in his new film, “Electric Vehicles — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” there’s a lot more to EVs than people know. He joins Michele to discuss.
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hopefully this documentary will wake people up. |
| 0:02.3 | Yeah, I think because so much of our media is wedded to the idea that climate change is an existential threat. |
| 0:11.0 | It's climate change has to be dealt with by force-feeding us from a fossil fuel-based economy to a renewables-based economy. |
| 0:18.6 | And they don't want to undermine that narrative. |
| 0:20.4 | I think that's what it is. |
| 0:21.6 | They really are wedded to the idea that humans are destroying the planet, and we need to |
| 0:25.9 | take drastic action to do something about it. |
| 0:28.0 | And if it were known, the drastic action that they're encouraging involves the exploitation |
| 0:32.7 | of children, it would undermine their message. |
| 0:34.7 | So I don't think they want to hear about it. |
| 0:41.1 | Larry. it would undermine their message. So I don't think they want to hear about it. Larry Elder is an icon in California, and nationally he's known for so many things. |
| 0:46.6 | He ran for governor of California when they tried to recall Gavin Newsom. |
| 0:50.3 | He's been a radio host, a talk show host. He's written multiple books. And now, electric vehicles, the good, the bad, and the ugly. This is so pertinent. We think owning an EV, first of all, it's expensive. But we think, you know, this is the one way to help save the planet. Is it? It might be, but is it? What don't you know? There is a lot of good, there's a lot of bad, and there's a ton of ugly in the building of electric vehicles. Larry Elder lays it all out in his new film. He is here to talk about it. And that is next. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button wherever you listen. Spotify, |
| 1:27.8 | Apple, YouTube, why it, rumble, just hit the subscribe button so you never miss an episode. |
| 1:34.0 | Larry Elder is next. |
| 1:39.2 | Larry, it is great to see you again. You are involved in so many things. Why this film? Well, you know, |
| 1:47.9 | Michelle, before I did the film, I was sort of agnostic about EVs. And the film really is not about |
| 1:53.6 | how you feel about climate change, whether you're on the side of Joe Biden, who says climate change |
| 1:58.3 | is an existential threat, or you feel as much ado about nothing, |
| 2:01.5 | or you're sort of in the middle. It's not about that. It's about whether or not an EV, all things |
| 2:05.7 | considered, is better for the planet than a gas-powered car. Before I started doing the documentary, it's been |
| 2:11.0 | about a year doing it. I interviewed about 47 people. I assumed that they were better for the planet |
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