All right, joining us now is Eric Peters of Eric Petersotters.com. I think you can also do

EP autos.com also works. Always great to have Eric here, a fellow believer in liberty and mobility.

He loves cars and he loves freedom.

I mean, who doesn't?

It used to be that these two things were tied together.

As a matter of fact, they still are.

And we're losing both of them rapidly.

So joining us now is Eric Peters.

And I guess Eric, you know, I looked at some of your articles.

One of the things you said you would do to try to get you out of this, as you contemplate

the fact that they're really trying to actively destroy this country.

And it takes your mind off of it to go for a ride in your restored Trans Am that you've

got.

It does.

For however much longer I can afford to do it, I put $40 in it, and that was about a third of a tank. Yeah, yeah. It is amazing sticker shock. And we all see that. It's crazy what's happening. But, of course, it is deja vu all over again. And I said, when I started talking about this at the very beginning, I said, I know how this is going to work out. This is going to be worse than the OPEC-Cold embargo. Our economy is in worse shape to start with. And this is going to be a much bigger shock to the system. And I think that's going to be borne out and all this stuff. But I said, I just hope we don't get disco music back.

I think that'll be more like a take.

But you're right, though.

You know, I've been having deja vu because in many ways, this reminds me of the situation back in 08,

just before General Motors went bankrupt and 4Ault went bankrupt. Only, as you say,

I think it's going to be worse this time. This time around General Motors and Ford and also

Stalantis, which is the corporation that owns the Dodge and Ram brands and Jeep brands,

they are almost entirely dependent for profitability on big trucks and SUVs.

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