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Today's podcast is brought to you by Howie's new book Paperboy. To order today, go to HowieCarShow.com and click on "Store." ♪♪♪ Better strap yourself in. It's time for the Howie Car Show. What do you make of President Biden redubbing of the holiday as transgender day because he goes... He said that didn't happen. If either he's not being honest with the public or he really didn't know what was going on. And so my question would be who's running the presidency? Go faster, buddies. Come on up, buddies. Get up there as I can see you. Live from the Matthews Brothers Studios. Oh, by the way, that triggers me to see the Injecting Police press conference. At some point, I'll tell you guys the backstory of how I tried to stop that in the West Wing. Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes. I don't even think anyone knew about the transgender proclamation. I worked in the mayor's office. I have proclamation every other day. Hehehehehehe. The intergalactic gesture of names. This conformity factory, closed. Fifteen years of loyal service, and this is how they tell me, a gesture with an invisible proclamation. Rum swabs, hacks, and moonbaats beware. It's... ♪♪♪ Howie Carr. Remember Bloodbath? April Fool's Day? Well, Democrats just did it again this afternoon. The Trump campaign just sent out something during the top of the hour break. I was listening during the breaks in the three o'clock hour to his speech in Grand Rapids, and he was talking about Lake and Riley. He said, "The 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was barbarously murdered by an illegal alien animal, the Democrats say, "Please don't call them animals. They're humans." I said, "No, they're not humans. They're animals." I heard him say this. This is an exact quote. So the Democrats, the Biden-Harris headquarters, just tweeted it out, and here's the way they described it in their description. Trump. Democrats said, "Please don't call immigrants animals." I said, "No, they're not humans. They're animals." April Fool's Day? He didn't say, "Call immigrants animals." He was talking about the Venezuelan thug who killed Lake and Riley. So he just retweeted it out with what they said in boldface. Why is the Biden campaign constantly jumping to the defense of bloodthirsty, illegal alien murderers who killed American citizens? President Trump was clearly speaking of Lake and Riley's killer here, and he was. I heard it with my own ears. We didn't pull the cut, because it was so obvious. But he did. And the Democrats are saying that he's calling all immigrants animals. This is the way they operate. It'll probably be on CNN and MSNBC tonight that he called immigrants animals. Although this is going to be even harder to sell than blood baths. I mean, it's very clear what he said. He said, and she was murdered by an illegal alien animal, the Democrats say, "Please don't call them animals. They're humans." I said, "No, they're not." So that's what he said. Anyway, 844-542-844-542-442. We'll take a couple of calls before I go back to the EPA EV fantasy. I want to play some of the... Tucker has some pretty funny stuff. He was invited to speak by some of the students at his high school, St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. And then they said it wouldn't be safe. It wouldn't be safe for Tucker to come to the school. Dr. Luke, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Dr. Luke. Hi, how are you today? Good. Oh, good. You know what? We are constantly going from one headline to another headline, trying to figure out what we're going to do, whether it's going to be the electric trucks or it's going to be the transgender day on Easter. We're just at war. And I don't think we really know. We are at war with these psychos in the Biden regime. They are trying to... They're always having us move around and we can't get a chance for our country to unite and get our stuck together. I know. But you can't just turn the other cheek. Trump had the comeback after they made up this quote about him this afternoon. He had to come back with something. Oh, I don't want him to turn the other cheek. I just want us to realize who our enemy is now that we're figuring it out finally. There's no mistaking. There's no mistaking. These people want to destroy our country. We are slated to disappear. That's what they're doing with our culture, our history, and our people. We're being replaced with people from outside our country. I just don't... I don't know what the... I don't know what the... They're not going to benefit. The people who are promoting this are not going to benefit in the end. They're going to be destroyed along with us. If you overturn the most successful society in the history of humankind, you're just going to replace it with mob rule like you've got in all of these third-world hellholes that they're shipping people in from. It's just not going to work. Thanks for the call, Dr. Luke. 844-542-4242, Bill, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Bill. Howie, hey, you were talking about this Nipper. Yes. A friend of mine was working for Homeland Security a couple of years ago, and he was working at the Burlington airport up here, and he was working the day Biden came in campaigning. Obviously, they had the whole security area clear that, so there was nothing but staff. He said, "Biden comes up," and he said, "My supervisor's pretty hot looking," and he goes, "Biden just zeroed in on her," and he's like, "Hey, honey, how about we get a selfie together?" He's like, "No, thank you," and he's like, "Come on," and she's like, "Step behind my body, just kind of for protection," so then he just pivoted and went to every woman. How about you? Let's do a selfie, and all of them are like, "No, no, that's not a problem." They were right, Bill. You know what he wanted to do? He wanted to grab them. I'm just going to touch it for a second. All right, have a good one, Howie. Thanks, Bill. Who would want a selfie taken with him, especially a woman? It's just a question of what part of your body he's going to grab, and they got pictures of him grabbing all different body parts of women, and if there's not a woman around, he'll grab a young boy. They got pictures of him grabbing young boys, too, although he prefers a young girl. Paul, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Paul. Good evening, Howie. In my 33 years of working for the old MDC and the DCR, and it's certainly only one aspect of the electric genre, but it was the first electric Zambonis that we had received and started using, and I ran the rink on Commercial Street in the North End. You don't know where it is. No, I don't know where it is. Great, great rink, beautiful rink, and I was really blessed to have run that beautiful facility amongst many others. The first electric machine that we started to use, I was changing over from shifts from morning to night, and got this kid on. It was pretty qualified, and we were dumping the snow from the tank outside. I said, "Don't go near the pier, whatever you do in the back of the rink, that overlooks Constitution Marina." He doesn't come back in for a few minutes. I'm going, "What the heck's going on?" I take off the back door, and the Zamboni is through the pier, almost in the water. I mean, the back of the hobbers right there. This was the first experience we had. Of course, we had the DC off flying down there. We couldn't have any photo ops, because if the newspapers got pictures of that thing, so they kept that really quiet. But if you Google Howie, if you Google Zamboni Fire, some of the worst accidents in dating rinks have happened with electric Zamboni. They're so heavy, they're caused, as opposed to a propane or a gas Zamboni, is three times the cost, and the biggest fires in skating rinks have happened with Zamboni's awful, awful experiences. How long have electric Zamboni's been around? Well, 15 years. The problem we had originally with rinks and closed faces was propane and gasoline. We had to do carbon monoxide checks on an ongoing basis in the rink. So this certainly presented in an auction, but the options were far more damaging, money-wise. I can't tell you could write a book on the accident. So how much does an electric Zamboni cost? 140,000 as opposed to maybe 7580, but they're not making gas and propane any longer. Of course not. Just like they're going the way of gas stoves and dishwashers that work. All the stuff that makes life somewhat more pleasant is going away, because that's the plan. Thanks for the call, Paul. 844-542. When we come back, I'm going to talk about this Wall Street Journal op-ed. Can we power the EPA's EV fantasy? Again, this is all a disaster. Everything about this Biden regime, everything that they're promoting is a disaster, and EVs are just part of it. I'm Howie Carr. Howie Carr is back. I love my pillow's products. I sleep with their pillows. I wear their slippers. I dry off with their towels. Now you can enjoy all of their products with great discounts by using the code Howie at MyPillow.com. From pillows, towels, slippers, and even their geezer dream sheets, go to MyPillow.com and use code Howie for amazing discounts. Jared, what's the poll question? What are the results thus far? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at HowieCarShow.com, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said yesterday that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump. Do you agree? Yes. Yes. No, or they're about the same. Yes, I agree. 98% say yes, 1% each for no, and they're about the same. All right. 844-542-42. Can we power the EPA's EV fantasy? This is by two guys named Jonathan A. Lesser and Mark Mills. They are at the National Center for Energy Analytics. I want to read you a few paragraphs of this story just about the problem with the electric grid when we factor in all these, this EV fantasy, and it is a fantasy. EVs are a niche product used mostly by high-income urban consumers with garages they begin. Electric cars accounted for shy of 8% of new auto sales last year and drained billions from automakers' profits. So obviously the consumers don't want them. But there's another wild card here. Widespread adoption of EVs will require an unprecedented and staggeringly expensive expansion of local electrical grids. You just heard the electrician from Portland saying that. This will require a huge increase in the production of electrical transformers along with more power plants and transmission lines to produce and deliver energy. There's a lot of information here. I'm going to go slowly. The overhaul must include upgrading local grid distribution at the roughly 3000 electric utilities across the country. The wires, poles, and transformers that line our streets. There are 60 million to 80 million distribution transformers in neighborhoods designed for existing loads. Around a million new ones are sold annually, two-thirds of which replaced aged out transformers. That replacement isn't close to meeting the EPA's dreams. Millions more and heavier transformers will be needed to handle higher power levels and more frequent use, even if many EVs are charged overnight. This will require replacing many of the existing utility poles to handle new transformers extra weight. On an individual level, millions of homes and apartment complexes will need electrical upgrades to accommodate at-home chargers. Consumers and taxpayers will pay for that multi-billion dollar price tag, whether through taxes or higher utility rates. Electricians will need to install new circuits for EV chargers, and many older homes will need new power panels to handle increased demand. On-road fueling will still be needed, particularly for the millions of consumers without garages. Replicating the nation some 195,000 retail gas stations will require far more than the 4,000 charging facilities that the Federal Highway Administration has proposed. Given the physics of electricity, thousands of these charging stations will each have the power demand of an entire town rather than that of a typical convenience store. Brandon says it can be done. That will mean more massive upgrades, in this case for higher voltage grid systems and critically thousands of new large transmission level transformers. How much is this going to cost, you ask? One energy department study estimated some 50 billion to 125 billion in infrastructure upgrades will be needed to support EVs comprising 10 percent of all on-road cars. Today they account for less than 2 percent. Okay, so what they're saying in the Wall Street Journal, we estimate that achieving the EPA's goal will require north of one trillion dollars in grid upgrades by 2035, 11 years from now. Money aside, transformers will be a big roadblock. Delivery of the largest utility transformers can already take several years, and overall transformer costs have risen 70 percent since 2018. Replacing tens of millions of distribution transformers would require massive amounts of copper, most of which would have to be imported. The U.S. is also heavily dependent on imports for large substation transformers, especially from Asia, meaning China, itself raising obvious national security issues. Add to that a shrinking labor force that can build and install all this specialized hardware. The EPA's architects apparently believe there's a magic wand to fix all of this. Whatever the motivation, the EPA's de facto EV mandate is another green fantasy. 844-542-42, this is insane. Lisa, you're next with how we car. Go ahead, Lisa. Hi, how are you? I have two brief points to make about the batteries and the cars themselves. Nobody has actually discussed that the cars can't be resold. They can. Anybody can sell you anything. But what happens with the battery can be run out and recharged 3,000 times. What happens after the 3,000 times is it only starts to recharge at 80 percent. Then it's 70 percent. It never gets a full charge over again. So what do you do? You sell the car, you sell the car to somebody poor like me, looking to buy one new of used. So what happens is I'm getting a car with a battery that doesn't fill and to replace that battery is going to cost me upwards of $10,000, not including Lisa. Lisa, why are you doing this to yourself? No, I'm not. I was using the hypothetical fee. I'm not buying one, but I was using myself as a thought in the conversation process. There's apparently no resale market for these things. As Hertz is discovering, they're trying to unload them all and who wants to buy them? Then remember, catalytic converters? Then we'll start stealing batteries out of your EV. Well, they're going to need a backhoe to steal the batteries, though. I mean, catalytic converters are easy to take out. They've sent that entire gang, that entire crew to prison, that were robbing them in New England. I'm how we are. Looking to give a mom in your life the gift of peace and quiet this mother's day? Maybe you can't help mom run away from all her responsibilities, but at least you can help her tune them out with a brand new pair of Raycon earbuds. Raycon's everyday earbuds are the perfect way to tune out all the noise around you and tune in to something great. 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It's a religion. That's what makes it hard for them to give it up because it's a cult. I don't know what's going to happen, but it's impossible. I think we don't have the capacity. 844-500-4242, John from New York. What's going on in the markets, John? Today was a bad day, was it not? Yeah, starting to come home, the roof, so to speak, the administration did some stupid again. They came out and said the Medicare advantage ensures they were only going to give them a 3%. Actually, about a 4% increase for the coming year. Unfortunately, their medical costs were going up at 11%. All the HMO stocks were down 10%, 15%, 20%. But the real thing that happened is on Friday, they released the PCE. This is personal consumption, expenditure thing. It's sort of like the CPI. The fed likes it better because it relies on actual data. Here's the problem. It came out exactly as a fed expected .3, but they revised the prior month up to .5. You've got the inflation numbers being revised up. If you add those two numbers together, right, .8 divided by 2 is .4. You're running at a 4.8% rate in the first two months of the year. That's the number. They keep saying inflation is coming down, but it's accelerating because in November, December, and January, excuse me, I've covered it in December, it's falling. So the whole thing is crazy, but you know what's up is gold's up. Gold's hit $2,300 an ounce today. The low trade this year was 2,000. So gold's up 15%. So who are you going to believe the Federal Reserve or gold? I'm going to take the gold that's been money for 6,000 years. I saw a headline today in the Wall Street Journal. I can't even remember. It was like backwards stocks up on down job report or stocks down on up jobs report. I mean, it's just like the stock market is totally in reverse from the real economy, even more so than ever. Yeah, well, yeah, it's just essentially money flows, right? And what happened is earlier, like basically from October on, the Fed was able to force long rates down, but today, long treasury yields hit 440, and then stocks got hit on that, but they've been buying gold relentlessly and even with this Bitcoin thing going on. But more importantly, because people asked about gold or silver and some of the stuff you read on Twitter and stuff is bad, but I just want to share one thing that I thought you would enjoy. In 1964, the minimum wage was 5 silver coins, 5 quarters, and the coins were mostly silver, huge percentage of silver. If you melt those coins down, the five coins you had in 1964, they would be worth approximately $23 to $24, depending on the price of silver. Wow. So the $1.25 that you got paid, that just shows you how inflation over time, even if the small percent erodes purchasing power. Yeah, when it's not a small percent, it erodes it very rapidly. And they just keep people like Paul Krugman keep saying, "Oh, and Jim Kramer keeps saying everything's wonderful." They have private jets, of course, everything's wonderful. Yeah, so we'll see, but I mean, it looks like overall, I would say, the inflation's getting worse. It appears that the revised unemployment numbers are getting worse. In other words, there's more unemployment. There's definitely more layoffs I've noticed in the last two to three weeks. But I don't see the inflation. Oil had $85 today with this kind of war situation, missiles flying. It was $68 in the end of January, so it's a massive increase. And if you look at the charts, it looks like it's had to $100, and gold looks like it's headed to $24 to $2,500. So it's not a great picture, unless you're getting a pretty big raise, basically. And to say that the seven stocks that you've been talking about that are propping up the stock market, it's now down to four stocks. Is that right? Yeah, pretty much Tesla's rolled over, the EV fantasy's over, Apple's rolled over. There's only about, I'd say three to four of them left. You've got Microsoft and NVIDIA and stuff like that. But they're all sort of rolling over because it's just money flowing. Eventually, if rates go up, people will move the money out of the stock market and into the bond market because there's a lot less risk. But again, you've got to sort of look at it. The stocks are up 10% and inflation's up five or six. The real return, I think we're up about 8% year to date now. But if you're running a 5% inflation rate, it's not great. This is not the way it's supposed to be in an election year. Things are spinning out of Biden's control, aren't they? Yeah, he could very well be subject to if the Saudis want to help them out in the next month or two because I could very well likely see a scenario where oil hits $100 a barrel, which would be another 15, 20% upside from here. And the oil facts are another matter. Exxon ends up from what I told you, hey, this is probably a good buy or a good place to put money. Exxon was down to $96 in the middle of January. It's almost $120 today. So that's not a massive run. But again, if oil can be filled up... Well, you just get some more money to Ukraine so they can spend it on drones to hit the Russian refineries. That should really bring the price of oil down, right? Absolutely. The thing you mentioned, the EV fantasy, by the way, one thing I wasn't mentioning in that article, but this artificial intelligence that they're rolling out, all these companies, that's a massive, massive consumer of power. That alone is going to increase the demand for electric 2% a year. So all kinds of generation facilities are going to have to be built just to handle that in the next couple of years. So with the EVs too, you would crash the grid. There's no doubt about it. Yeah. And again, there's no resale market for these things. And the word of mouth they're getting is miserable. The pool of new buyers is contracting rapidly, I would think. The only way they could do it is to force it on people. And I just don't think it's going to work because they don't have the infrastructure to force it on people, do they? Now, and you think if they were really serious about this, you would have tried it like at the Pinewood Derby first, rather than on the roads of America, but that's the way the government operates. Musk made most of his money really, not by selling the cars, but by getting the credits. So what happened is in the beginning, before they had actual EV credits, other automakers were forced to buy clean energy credits off Musk. And that's where he made all his money, not on the cars himself, really on the tax credits. You can't blame him, he's kind of like Ross Perot, right? Or he made all his money on Medicare on the systems. I know, but he's like Donald Trump. They love Donald Trump when he was on their side. Now they despise him. Now it's the same thing with Elon Musk, right? Right, right, right. He's like, he's like enemy number two or enemy number three in the pantheon of leftist devils. Wow. Okay, John, I appreciate it. And so this is good. This is good news for Silver Dave is what you're saying. The way things are going. Absolutely. Absolutely. Silver looks like it's going to break. Silver really looks like it's going to break out. It's been lagging gold and silver looks like to me, it could be headed to $30. But you know, they haven't even started printing the money and this stuff's going up. And like I say, gold's up 15, almost 15% from the bottom. It's up about 11% your data's done better in stocks. And it's probably going to continue to do better because the inflation situation is not really improving. Yeah. Thank you, John. I appreciate it. Call any time. We appreciate your input. When I get back to New England, I'm going to go buy Silver Dave and get some of those Silver Dimes that aren't that are worth more than a dime obviously. But I'd like to just have a few around 844 542 42 919 over 3 million EVs in the US are on recall due to the chances of catching fire. You're asked not to park inside park only outside until fixed. Yeah, I know. I know. Check out the price of new tires for EVs. You'll need about 50,000 miles. 207 there are more than 120,000 gas stations in America. How many charging stations with that equal? Yeah, I know. Here's another one 978. These same people that are trying to force us into electric cars are the same one who are fighting any expansion of the electric grid into the neighborhoods around the state. They fight every single electric project that comes online. Yeah, there was a story in the globe last week of the last coal fired plants are going out in New England. That's a good thing. I mean, don't we need to have more plants, you know, whether it's hydro or nuclear or anything, wind even solar. We need it. We need all kinds of power, don't we? 844 542. Jim, you're next with how we car. Go ahead, Jim. Hey, how are you? How's it going? Good. I was calling because the day you're asked why it takes so much water to put out an EV fire. Yes. I think it's because the chemical, the battery itself, it gets so hot that the flame keeps flashing out. So the water is just only there to cool the battery to a certain point where it won't flash the fire up. So if you probably threw an EV car in the water, it would probably boil the water for a couple of hours. Yeah, I mean, you know, remember when the giant cargo ship went down in the Atlantic Ocean, it was full of EVs. And I mean, that was just a huge, huge problem because there were, I think you're right, there were all these fires under water. You know, nobody died, but they got everybody off. But the ship was just like a, just like an underwater torch for days, if not weeks. Thanks for the call, Jim. 844 542. Mike, you're next with how we car. Go ahead, Mike. Yeah, how we, you know, one of the first missions that Trump made to take on, God bless, he wins, is the restructure of the EPA. You know, they're a cabinet member. Okay, number one, and look, they have way too much power. They do, they've, Congress should be, if they want to have these mandates, Congress should be passing them so that voters can decide whether or not their, their representatives made the correct decision for, for the constituents. Absolutely. And, you know, you and I really love to remember how this all came about in 1970, when Nixon formed the EPA, you know, the state EPA is even up more out of control right now. But, you know, if you remember Greenpeace, this is all how it all came about with Greenpeace. And the co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore, quit the foundation because he said they, they were crazy with this climate cult, you know, and this climate change agenda they're on. So, you know, we need to, we need to restructure the EPA from top to bottom. What you got in there is you got a bunch of climate cult people in the EPA. Look, look at the restrictions they put on the manufacturers of cars alone. You wonder why the cost of the vehicle is so high. All of these agencies, it's not just the EPA, Mike. It's the, the FDA is, is, is just out of control. All of these agencies, they're, they're, they're infiltrated by people who just want to regulate everything. There's, there's no, there's no conception that, that all of these industries that they're regulating have to actually produce something for, for all of us, all of us consumers. They, it's, and it is, it's all, they're all cultists is what they are. 84455, Nixon did a lot of bad things. I mean, he made a lot of mistakes. He, he cut, he, he created this racial classification of Hispanics. That's been ridiculous. And now, now Biden has created this new racial classification of Middle Easterners. That's not going to work out well. Nixon had wage price controls. That didn't work out well. And of course, Watergate, we'll be right back on Howie Car. >> Become a Howie Car Show super fan. Subscribe to Howie's newsletter and you'll get the latest news, columns, cheap faster deals, and other special offers from The Howie Car Show. Just add to your name and email at howiecarshow.com. This hour of The Howie Car Show is brought to you in part by the 110 Grill with over 40 locations in the Northeast. You can find one near you, visit them at 110 Grill.com. The Howie Car Show is back. 71, like many other windmills, I have yet to see the one at the electrician's union building just off the Southeast Expressway working. Don't some of them work though because they're, they have generators just to, you know, for public relations purposes, they have the generators are, are making them the windmills turn. I don't, I don't think I've ever seen one working on its own either, actually. 844, 542, 42. You don't seem to understand, says 256, that all of these mandates are all separate parts of the Green New Deals. The problems are features that will be addressed by the, by the plans created over a hundred years ago. This is the new world order theory. When the private, the private deregulated by Reagan transportation system can't function, it will be nationalized by President Gavin Newsom with emergency executive powers. And it will work about, as well as all national, nationalized plans work out. Like, for instance, wage price controls that I just mentioned under Richard Nixon, anyone old enough to remember, wages and prices were not controlled by wage price controls. Nor was inflation. Inflation went out of control with the controls. Pete, your next with Howie Carr, go ahead, Pete. Hi, Howie. Thanks for taking my call. You know, apparently the knuckleheads in this administration, and I'm going to talk about Jennifer Granholm briefly, even though she's a mess, and we all know that, the truth of the matter is how I have friends of mine here in North Central New Hampshire, and they're all retired from New Hampshire electric co-op supervisors, be it lime and whatever their work was. They tell me, and it makes sense to me, it's based on the load, Howie, number one, number two is New Hampshire is growing, now at a slower rate because of the current administration, but residential and commercial still growing. And the truth, it adds to the load. And what's going to happen is if you do the math, I'm still trying to figure the rest of the math out. If you look at the cost rate, the ratio between the cost of the nationwide project, the total cost, the bottom line versus the payback, you're talking 150 to 200 years, that's what I'm seeing. But maybe I'm wrong. You know, the whole. Well, they're talking about to the editorial yesterday in the journal said that, you know, the savings in so-called carbon emissions over a 20 year period is about the same as in the increase that India and China have in carbon emissions in a single year. So this is absurd. It doesn't even begin to, you know, save the planet in this in the slightest way. I mean, assuming the planet's in danger, which by the way, I don't assume, do you? Thanks for the call. How dare you? Yeah. All right. I will see you tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in. I'm how we are.