William Inboden on Reagan The Peacemaker
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Guests: Robert Norton, William Inboden, & Brent Cline
Host Scot Bertram talks with Robert Norton, Vice President and General Counsel of Hillsdale College and a former top-level legal executive of automakers, about questions that persist regarding the adoption of electric vehicles. William Inboden tells us about his deep look into President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy record in The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. And Brent Cline, Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale, returns for a trip through Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, the first of his "Border Trilogy."
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.4 | Well, in the future, if we have this influx of a sudden need of chargers, that isn't going to be without cost. |
| 0:30.0 | And what will the future electric rates be? |
| 0:32.1 | People do not want us to focus on that. |
| 0:33.7 | We should look at that and say, what hypothetically would be the cost of, say, electricity here in Michigan? This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's Bob Norton, |
| 0:42.0 | Vice President and General Counsel for Hillsdale College, also former General Counsel for |
| 0:46.7 | Daimler, Chrysler, and Mercedes, dealing with governmental relations and regulations. Bob, thanks |
| 0:52.5 | for joining us. Thank you for having me. Talking about |
| 0:55.4 | electric cars, what's not being considered, and what we know, I guess, at this point. There's a |
| 1:02.3 | recent study out from Anderson looking at the costs of gas versus electric vehicles, and there |
| 1:07.9 | are a number of studies like this. This one ended up with some different data than others. So there are a number of studies like this. This one ended up with some |
| 1:11.1 | different data than others. So there's a number of things that they look at in the course of the |
| 1:16.5 | study. One is the cost for people who are buying electric vehicles to literally charge these |
| 1:23.7 | vehicles in their homes, different types of chargers. There's residential chargers. There's |
| 1:27.2 | commercial chargers. How do the costs of those differ? And then how do they differ also in the |
| 1:33.1 | amount of electricity that is being delivered to the car? So you have the different charging mechanisms. |
| 1:38.8 | One of the criticisms of the study is that this should have focused more on home charging, |
| 1:44.1 | which is its own discussion |
| 1:46.3 | point, if you will. In order to do home charging in anything like an efficient matter, |
| 1:50.7 | you're going to have to have an, you're going to have to install an electric charger |
| 1:57.3 | capable of doing the rapid charging in your home. And what do those things cost and how are |
| 2:04.3 | people able to get those into their homes? There's a wide range of pricing depending on how fast you want |
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