Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. It is Friday. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.

Just housekeeping note, I'm going to be out on Monday and Tuesday with the family. We're hoping,

assuming the kids get better, that we can sneak out of town for a couple of days. But,

nonetheless, I digress. I actually want to begin this hour with a phone call of someone who has been waiting patiently

because it directly relates to what I was going to get into, shifting some stuff around

what I wanted to talk about with Bob on hold here from Fayetteville.

But before I get to Bob, let me tell you, you can call it as well.

It is 877-97-973-4-25. It is Friday, kind of a free-for-all on the phones for you.

Now, Bob and Fayetteville, let me fire up your phone call here. Welcome to the program.

Hello, Eric. How are you doing? Great, great. You there? Yes. I got it over bronchitis, so I may be a little bit hard to understand.

I listened to your comments about people being going to end up staying at home and that.

And I thought about the Green Deal and electric vehicles.

And something that's not talked about much.

I think it was Ford of General Motors,

is building an $8 billion plant for fabricating electric vehicles.

Well, a friend of my wife's son bought a Prius hybrid,

or not a hybrid, electric.

And it's a used vehicle.

And right after it got 50,000 miles on it, the warranty expired, and the battery went

dead.

They valued the car at $3,500 of the replacement cost for the batteries at $8,000.

My point being, new electric vehicles. at $3,500 and a replacement cost for the batteries at $8,000.

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