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Alright, let's hit the phone lines and talk to Jay. No, we'll talk to Reed in Greenville. Reed, welcome. Hey, it's all good here. Alright. I just wanted to make a comment about electric cars. mean, yeah, it'd be great. I'd love to have an electric car, but you know, they cost a lot of money. Yeah. And you have to have enough stuff at your house to charge the dang things. And I looked at this years ago, so it's probably not correct today. But years ago, I looked at just automobiles.
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And I said, okay, here's how many cars they say we've got. Here's what an average mileage was at the time. And so here's how many, uh how much gasoline we're using. Here's how many, how much energy that is. And how much would it take in solar power, I think it was solar that I used, to come up with that much energy. And we would have had to cover up, I believe it was more,
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than the area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park completely with solar panels in order to meet just the automobile's usage of fuel. Just automobiles. That's no transfer trucks, ships, no planes, no nothing. And so, yeah, I mean, it would be great if we could all drive around with electric cars, but the fact of the matter is, like you said, today, I know this for a fact.
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because I have family that works in utilities. Today, we are seeing orange and red grid situations and companies are going, don't touch anything at the plant because we can't afford to lose any power. That was never the case, never the case when I worked for the power industry at a power plant 25 years ago. Right. happened. Yeah. Now it happened while the day in town.
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Yep, and with more and more of these data centers going up, it's going to be an even bigger problem. I appreciate it, Reed. Now we'll go to Jay and Lawrence. Jay, welcome. Hey, Charlie. Hey, bud. Hey.
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And I'm gonna put it out there as the United States of America. All right? One, it's really, it's two comments about it. One is, who the hell can afford it? Honestly, mean, in South Carolina with all these monopolized power companies, you get one of those electric cars, let's see, maybe your electric bill's gonna be a thousand bucks a month, that's awesome. Also,
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I'm just going to 400 something horsepower down the road and carry it up and make noise. I'm American man. I'm not one of those foreigners. I'm American. I want to blow up the roads. You're one of those four barrel V8 guys. I appreciate it Jay. Thank you. Somebody sent a text in and that's when it hit me because we've been sitting here talking about the price of gas. How many times have you had to fill up? This war has been going on for 11 days.
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How many times have you had to fill up in the past 11 days? Now, I'm not talking about you truck drivers out there. I know that's a different story. Not delivery drivers or anything like that. Just you and your commuter vehicle. You fill up once a week, Do you really? So you filled up one and a half times since the war started. Somebody said, look, it's only cost me an extra 10 bucks. Let's go to Chris in Greenville. Chris, welcome. Hey, John. Good afternoon.
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uh... charlie but that's okay go ahead outside that's right uh... they've been on the tail end of the uh... electric car thing i don't know you probably keep up everything that does not want you to own electric car anymore they want to read to you what about that like you all nothing and be happy and that's right and what that said because i mean that then they can just take it back and you know lease it again you're right
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But that was, I don't even know anybody that leases a car anymore, do you? No, absolutely not. Why would you? I mean, when you can get a good used car for, you know, five to $10,000 easy and last for a long time. And now I'm really into right to repair. don't know how much you know about it. Yeah. It's huge. So all the car companies, they want to capture your data from you so they can sell it.
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Yeah. market. And if they get caught, what happens? They get a little slap on the wrist. 0.001 % of the amount that they've stolen. And they want to make sure that you bring it to the dealership. A Tesla? Where do you got to go with it? If you want to get your tire changed. I was actually working at a tire company the other day, a big national chain, and they brought in a Tesla. he was like, sorry, can't do that. You have to take it to the dealer. Wow. That's amazing. That is amazing. Hey, I appreciate it, Chris. Thank you. I got to blow through these real quick. Ray is in Clinton. Ray, welcome.
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I do today, Charlie. Doing good. I keep seeing these programs talking about the price of gasoline, but they're not really looking at the actual what has to go through a plant that makes gasoline to see where all the money's going. I worked in the petrochemical industry while I was going to college to pay for my tuition, and I learned that there's only
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about 20 gallons of gasoline in a barrel. You can't get any more out of it. That I didn't know Ray, but I know this. A big chunk of that cost of gasoline right now is taxes and fees. Let's go to Gerald in Kalpins. Gerald, welcome. Hey Charlie, as the birds start building their nest, I put mothballs under them.
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Yeah, just heard the snakes and it worked well for me last year. Just food for thought, brother. I'm going to look into that. I appreciate it. I do know that the Bluebird Scouts are out right now. Kenneth in Woodruff wants to talk about electric cars. Kenneth, what's up? Well, they always talk about it's green energy and everything. Well, you also got to understand that cobalt, if you've ever seen one, they get
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The mine. It is nasty, nasty. These people have so much cancer problems. Their kids are born with deformities. Then the lithium. And they use child labor. Yes. And then lithium in this country, we can't even mine it because it's too nasty. Because there's no way we can pass OSHA rules. That's right. That's right. And then to be able to...
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support all of the energy, we're going to have to have more nuclear power plants and that's something that they don't like. So actuality and when you take them and take them to the dump, you can't recycle it. So it just goes more and more into the dump. So in actuality, they're not very green. No, they are not at all. They're anything but I appreciate it, Kenneth. When we get back, Abby Phillips
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