Matt Thomas EVs 2
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Speaker 1 : This electrification deal just has me. You know, I’m a geopolitical guy, I’ve been in politics my whole life, I’ve been to DC so many times, I couldn’t tell you guys want to electrify our system. Well, I’m here to tell you that we don’t mine even one of the precious metals it takes to make a battery. In North America, most of the critical components come from China, and Russia. And then China bought the cobalt mine down in Africa. And so they got to dig up 340,000 yards of earth for every single battery from around the world and ship it someplace, have a process and ship it and thread it into a battery, and then ship it to put it in a car. And it’s and the carbon footprint of electric car is not only ridiculous, you know, you can’t look at it, and then you got hazardous waste in six years. I mean, and what are you getting to? How are you going to make all these batteries? There ain’t no way. n
nJake, and I, you know, every time they come out with a new model, I gotta buy a different plug in charger right now, there’s 14 Different charging plugs for all these electric cars, and they plan on coming out with 50 or 100. More like, how many chargers are you gonna have to carry around? Or it makes no sense to me? I mean, I don’t, you know, they’re trying to ram it down our throat, but you’re going to have our transportation system at the mercy of China and Russia. I mean, you know, why don’t they go fuel cell, you know, or why don’t they go natural gas or, I mean, there’s so many ways to fix the situation. Without doing something as drastic as changing the entire fleet. I mean, California, they want you to drive an electric car, but you cannot get a permit to put a charging station in your garage. So what the hell yeah!n
nSean : Itu2019s funny, you said that two of my team members are actually at a California dealer now. And they’re a little independent store. But they’re she wants to become the you know, she actually wants to become the premier electric Evie dealership for her community. But she can’t do it without those charging stations. And then you got to decide, like, which ones do you go with? It’s funny the government will regulate the height of door knobs on doors, right? Like that’s, that’s uniform. It’s so interesting that they’re not taking that same approach with the IDI chargers. I couldn’t agree more, I think. I think it’s a business. It’s not a scalable situation. All right now, and it’s definitely a disaster. Totally interesting. What do you think?n
n Matt : You’d have thought they learned from the cell phones, right? We came out with cell phones. How many different goddamn chargers are there for cell phones? Well, right now, there’s, I think 11 or 14 different chargers for electric cars. Okay, so you get to build charging stations across the zoo, you build 14 of every single, like, it doesn’t. I don’t know how these people come up with this crap. To be honest with you. I really don’t. It’s amazing. I don’t get it.n
nSean : So keep your Nostradamus hat on for me for just a moment. This is very interesting. hearing your perspective. A lot of people that we interview for our webcast are kind of like, oh yeah, the changeover is gonna happen and we’ll adapt and we’ll sell EVs on documents. Do you feel like it’s even possible for this changeover?n
nMatt : There is no way. Take Oregon for instance, we have the largest lithium deposit in North America and the border of Oregon and Nevada, which is why Musk built that battery plant down there. So Oregon’s Green Green Tree Hugger tree hugger, you know electric electric electric and, and so they go okay, well, we need to build this lithium mine. Well, they’re gonna tear down an entire mountain range to do it. I mean, like, you don’t just go get precious metals. They’re not on the surface. You don’t plant a goddamn seed and have it grow up, right. You have to dig down a mile to get to it right and you’re not doing it with an electric car. Okay, you’re doing it with a D-9 cab. Right. And dump trucks and you know, and it’s like, they go well, no, we want these electric batteries, no we don’t want you to disturb the earth to dig it up. n
nWe just want so what do you mean you want it well, how are you gonna get this electric battery? Well? I was a firm believer that if automobiles created this, you know, put all this shit in the air, you should use this same vessel that created a problem to fix it. And the country, the world has a great opportunity to do that. But they’re very short sighted. So if I believe the fuel cell is absolutely 1,000% the way to go, oh, nitrogen is most abundant agent we have in the earth, and you don’t have to dig Earth up for it. It comes out of the atmosphere, and you can get it anywhere. And you don’t have to rely on Russia or China. And the byproduct of a fuel cell is oxygen. And water. Water, right? Yeah. Yeah. n
nSo why the hell hasn’t the government got behind, hey, if, if we had all these emissions put into the air for, you know, through cars, why don’t we use all these millions of cars, to put oxygen back in the air and fix the environment? You know, electric isn’t gonna do it. I mean, I, I’ve heard all kinds of reports that like, you know, an electric car, just having the life of one electric battery in one car, what it takes to create that battery and dispose of that toxic Waste is the equivalent of a three quarter ton diesel vehicle running for 80 years. Wow. And I absolutely believe it. I don’t know if you, they don’t show the mines where they get these seven precious metals to build these batteries. They don’t show you pictures of if you’ve ever flown over Nevada, Arizona and looked at these mines, these copper mines are a good example. I mean, you know they are huge, huge, huge, huge holes in the earth, you know. And it’s the same with lithium, cobalt. nickel, it doesn’t matter. I mean, you know, you don’t just Yeah, match.n
nSean : I literally just googled lithium strip mine pictures just to show the car motivators. Webcast viewers lately.n
n Matt : I’m not lying.n
nSean : I mean, did you see that? And I did. Yeah. That was just I just Googled lithium. Mine pictures. Those used to be mountains. And now they’re just holes in the hurricane. Yeah.n
n Matt : Yeah. So are you doesn’t want that on their southern border, but they want everyone to drive electric, you know? And could you match those in California? Could you imagine California letting that happen?n
n Speaker 2 : They would love that. They’re like, Hey, let the Missourians do that or the poor, the Chinese people or the Russian people to your point? Well, let’s, let’s hope the government really figures out and let’s hope the current situation we’re in with the chip shortage, helps people you know, gives them the wisdom to not be so dependent on and maybe come up dependent on foreign. You know, I guess you can say supplies or industry to develop what we need. And then like you said, there’s better. Are there better alternatives that we can adopt here that would be cheaper and better for the environment, and we could still get the transition right?nn
nJake, and I, you know, every time they come out with a new model, I gotta buy a different plug in charger right now, there’s 14 Different charging plugs for all these electric cars, and they plan on coming out with 50 or 100. More like, how many chargers are you gonna have to carry around? Or it makes no sense to me? I mean, I don’t, you know, they’re trying to ram it down our throat, but you’re going to have our transportation system at the mercy of China and Russia. I mean, you know, why don’t they go fuel cell, you know, or why don’t they go natural gas or, I mean, there’s so many ways to fix the situation. Without doing something as drastic as changing the entire fleet. I mean, California, they want you to drive an electric car, but you cannot get a permit to put a charging station in your garage. So what the hell yeah!n
nSean : Itu2019s funny, you said that two of my team members are actually at a California dealer now. And they’re a little independent store. But they’re she wants to become the you know, she actually wants to become the premier electric Evie dealership for her community. But she can’t do it without those charging stations. And then you got to decide, like, which ones do you go with? It’s funny the government will regulate the height of door knobs on doors, right? Like that’s, that’s uniform. It’s so interesting that they’re not taking that same approach with the IDI chargers. I couldn’t agree more, I think. I think it’s a business. It’s not a scalable situation. All right now, and it’s definitely a disaster. Totally interesting. What do you think?n
n Matt : You’d have thought they learned from the cell phones, right? We came out with cell phones. How many different goddamn chargers are there for cell phones? Well, right now, there’s, I think 11 or 14 different chargers for electric cars. Okay, so you get to build charging stations across the zoo, you build 14 of every single, like, it doesn’t. I don’t know how these people come up with this crap. To be honest with you. I really don’t. It’s amazing. I don’t get it.n
nSean : So keep your Nostradamus hat on for me for just a moment. This is very interesting. hearing your perspective. A lot of people that we interview for our webcast are kind of like, oh yeah, the changeover is gonna happen and we’ll adapt and we’ll sell EVs on documents. Do you feel like it’s even possible for this changeover?n
nMatt : There is no way. Take Oregon for instance, we have the largest lithium deposit in North America and the border of Oregon and Nevada, which is why Musk built that battery plant down there. So Oregon’s Green Green Tree Hugger tree hugger, you know electric electric electric and, and so they go okay, well, we need to build this lithium mine. Well, they’re gonna tear down an entire mountain range to do it. I mean, like, you don’t just go get precious metals. They’re not on the surface. You don’t plant a goddamn seed and have it grow up, right. You have to dig down a mile to get to it right and you’re not doing it with an electric car. Okay, you’re doing it with a D-9 cab. Right. And dump trucks and you know, and it’s like, they go well, no, we want these electric batteries, no we don’t want you to disturb the earth to dig it up. n
nWe just want so what do you mean you want it well, how are you gonna get this electric battery? Well? I was a firm believer that if automobiles created this, you know, put all this shit in the air, you should use this same vessel that created a problem to fix it. And the country, the world has a great opportunity to do that. But they’re very short sighted. So if I believe the fuel cell is absolutely 1,000% the way to go, oh, nitrogen is most abundant agent we have in the earth, and you don’t have to dig Earth up for it. It comes out of the atmosphere, and you can get it anywhere. And you don’t have to rely on Russia or China. And the byproduct of a fuel cell is oxygen. And water. Water, right? Yeah. Yeah. n
nSo why the hell hasn’t the government got behind, hey, if, if we had all these emissions put into the air for, you know, through cars, why don’t we use all these millions of cars, to put oxygen back in the air and fix the environment? You know, electric isn’t gonna do it. I mean, I, I’ve heard all kinds of reports that like, you know, an electric car, just having the life of one electric battery in one car, what it takes to create that battery and dispose of that toxic Waste is the equivalent of a three quarter ton diesel vehicle running for 80 years. Wow. And I absolutely believe it. I don’t know if you, they don’t show the mines where they get these seven precious metals to build these batteries. They don’t show you pictures of if you’ve ever flown over Nevada, Arizona and looked at these mines, these copper mines are a good example. I mean, you know they are huge, huge, huge, huge holes in the earth, you know. And it’s the same with lithium, cobalt. nickel, it doesn’t matter. I mean, you know, you don’t just Yeah, match.n
nSean : I literally just googled lithium strip mine pictures just to show the car motivators. Webcast viewers lately.n
n Matt : I’m not lying.n
nSean : I mean, did you see that? And I did. Yeah. That was just I just Googled lithium. Mine pictures. Those used to be mountains. And now they’re just holes in the hurricane. Yeah.n
n Matt : Yeah. So are you doesn’t want that on their southern border, but they want everyone to drive electric, you know? And could you match those in California? Could you imagine California letting that happen?n
n Speaker 2 : They would love that. They’re like, Hey, let the Missourians do that or the poor, the Chinese people or the Russian people to your point? Well, let’s, let’s hope the government really figures out and let’s hope the current situation we’re in with the chip shortage, helps people you know, gives them the wisdom to not be so dependent on and maybe come up dependent on foreign. You know, I guess you can say supplies or industry to develop what we need. And then like you said, there’s better. Are there better alternatives that we can adopt here that would be cheaper and better for the environment, and we could still get the transition right?nn