Join us as we explore a broad spectrum of the automotive landscape. From understanding the reasons behind existing traffic laws to examining the financial implications of government-mandated vehicle standards, this episode is packed with valuable insights. We also touch upon the subjective nature of car insurance, mainly related to recent theft concerns around specific vehicle brands, bringing in personal shopping experiences to provide listeners with practical advice on navigating the car market. Dive in for an informative hour filled with expert commentary and real-world applications.
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Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four barrel carburetor?
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It is a trick question. Watch this. Because Chevy didn’t make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn’t come out until 62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb until 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
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All right. Drive Radio KLZ 560. Got a great text message in from a police officer explaining why we don’t push vehicles out of the way. And as I figured, it’s a liability issue because of property damage, which you guys know me. I’m not a big law guy at all. In fact, I think we have far too many. But if there’s one thing I would be in favor of is somehow absolving our police and or fire from what this police officer is saying whereby if you’ve had something happened on a major roadway and you are impeding traffic for the safety of all involved you will now be pushed out of the way to the next safest spot and no one is going to cover that liability that’s on you and your insurance company and and and i would be okay as a state having a law like that, enabling then these officers to do what I said earlier in absolving them or their department or the state or whoever from any kind of liability when it comes to the damage on the vehicle to avoid what happened with this particular officer. Loss of life. There isn’t any property damage out there that even comes close to comparing. I don’t care what it is. Doesn’t matter. I don’t care if it’s a, you know, 100-story high-rise. Nothing compares to the cost of a life, in my opinion. especially a police officer’s life. So I, again, to me, that’s something that needs changed. I understand. I kind of figured that was the reasoning that we don’t, you know, and I see some of these vehicles and some of the wrecks that happen. And just by the way, not trying to be critical here, but some of the vehicles that are wrecked, I mean, what damage are you going to do in addition to what’s already happened? But I understand what this officer is saying. And I’m sure they’re just as frustrated as I am because you’re now exposed to everything going on around you, and people are knuckleheads. So I also talked about the lights and why I, as a private snowplow operator, do not use them, beacons. Somebody texted this in. As far as driving to the lights, in the military flying, they call it target fixation and train you not to succumb to it and crash into the target. Like riding a motorcycle, you go where you’re looking, so you look where you need to go to avoid hitting something. It’s the reason why I don’t run beacons. Because to this texter’s point, naturally, unless you’re trained not to, you will fixate on those lights, You drive where you’re looking, and you now end up in the way and are getting backed into because of what I just said. That’s why we as a company do not run beacons. Now, there are situations where other things I do out on public roadways and so on, you have to, by law, run them, and that’s different. But in this particular case, we don’t. And, again, I can tell you from experience that you have less parking lot incidences not running beacons versus running them. So thank you, by the way. First of all, thank the officer for texting that in and giving us an explanation as to why we don’t push vehicles out of the way, even though I think we should. And, by the way, I believe this officer would side with me on that. We should. But that’s the reason why we don’t is because of the liability side of it for the officers. You know, the departments, I should say, could even be the officer. But at the end of the day, that needs changed. So I’ll just say that straight up. Okay. Cafe ratings. I talked earlier about… With Donald Trump winning the presidency, and that’s not a political statement, that’s a fact. He won that Tuesday night handily, by the way. So if anybody out there thinking that, and I know Colorado is a very blue state, but anybody out there thinking that, well, that’s not the way it should work. Well, it did. And I get into the, in the weekday program about popular vote versus electoral college. And so I’m not going to get into that now. I’m a fan of the electoral college and I don’t ever want to see that changed. And if you know anything about how our system works, you should be a fan as well. But fact is Trump will be the president of the United States, January 20th of 2025. What effect will that have on the auto industry? A great effect. A lot of the things, and this is part of the fear that one political party has, is there will be a lot of rollbacks in some of the mandates that have already been made in that particular industry. Now, I had another text in that said, you know, why not just abolish CAFE ratings, period. Frankly, I think we should. They’re unnecessary, especially now. We are way past having to have any kind of a CAFE mandate. It should be one of the first things. As they start looking at different things that could be cut back from and managed and handled and so on, drop them. Elon Musk is going to have a lot of involvement in the Dodge Department, Department of Government Expense. Reducing is what I mean. I don’t know how many millions upon millions of dollars we spend every year just managing the cafe end of things, and I’d have to go through and look at all of that, and it’s a convoluted mess if you ask me. And to this texture’s point, just let the manufacturers compete on it if they want to. I mean, if they want to build a car that’s high mileage and they want to advertise it as such and they feel like that’s a bonus to them, then go for it. On the same token, if they want to build a 10-mile-to-the-gallon car, let them. Who cares? At the end of the day, what difference does it make? This whole CAFE thing is a joke. That’s an EPA mandate, and it needs to go away. There’s a lot of other EPA mandates it should go, but CAFE should be one of them. CAFE, Corporate Average Fuel Economy. Every single manufacturer has to abide by it. If they don’t, they’re penalized. If they don’t achieve it, they’re penalized. So in one way, keep this in mind, it’s a moneymaker for the EPA. It adds to their coffers. Because if a particular company can’t achieve that, they pay fines. And in doing so, adds to the coffers of the EPA. So it’s partly why they probably don’t want to see it go away. But I can tell you this. There’s no way that offsets the cost of doing what they’re doing. And my point to that is the cost of what they’re doing to you as a consumer as well. Anything mandated does nothing but pass the cost on to you, the taxpayer. EP, you know, EV mandates. All that does is pass that cost on to you. Whether you’re buying it or whether you’re paying for the benefits of somebody else buying it through the tax credits that buyer gets, you’re paying for it as a taxpayer. As we always say, there’s no free lunch. At some point, somebody’s paying. Cafe ratings cost. They’re not free. And again, you guys know me. I’m a free market guy. Let the free market dictate what fuel economy should or shouldn’t be. Will some of the emissions laws change? Kind of doubt it. And quite frankly, they’ve got things so clean right now that, again, do you need to mandate those things? These guys have got this thing dialed in right now to where other than some of the diesel stuff, I don’t know that you really need to mandate anything. It’s clean and it works. And again, it’s part of what they could make as the marketing aspect of selling a new car. So I’m one where will this change? Yes. How much? We’ll see. I think it will. I mean, you hear Donald Trump talk a lot about the EV mandates and the different things along those lines and the fact that we don’t need them and we don’t and they’re costing money. And a lot of the quote-unquote inflation bill, I call it, they’ll call it the infrastructure bill, but it was an inflation bill, deals with some of this. And some of that stuff needs rolled back. That’s the fear that some on one side have is that some of those things will be rolled back. Frankly, they need to be. That inflation reduction or that inflation infrastructure act, inflation act, I call it, does nothing but cause inflation. So. At the end of the day, will there be changes in the auto industry? Yes. Will they be good for you as a driver? I believe so, yes. Some of the mandates that would be coming down the pike probably won’t be now. I feel like those are good things. So I’ll talk more about that as we get closer and learn more about what some of those might be. Questions, answers, anything for us? 303-477-5600. Biggest pet peeve when driving in the snow is our question of the day. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Text line 307-282-22. Dave in Denver, you’re next. Go ahead.
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Hello. Hello, Dave. Yes, I wanted to know what was the best value of cars in an SUV under maybe $40,000 or under. I heard a lot about Mazda. I had a Hyundai, and I wasn’t too happy with that because… Insurance wouldn’t insure it.
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Okay. Are you talking new or used, Dave?
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Probably new.
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New. The list is, I don’t want to say endless because there is an end to it, but there’s a lot of vehicles in that market, as you know. I mean, literally, Dave, there are probably no less than, I’ll bet you if I added them all up, 25 to 30 different vehicles, models, and so on that fit into that description. Now, the 40K, you can buy a lot. Now, you’re not going to buy a full-size SUV, of course, for 40K, but you can buy what we call the compact or the mid-size SUVs. I don’t even call them SUVs. I do. But essentially, you can buy an all-wheel drive SUV for under 40K. I mean, I just, for example, drove a… It was a front-wheel drive, not a non-wheel drive, but I drove the new Buick. I got to look up the one I drove here just recently. I did a review of it last week. I think it’s an Envision. And 30K, 30 miles to the gallon. Car performed phenomenally, Dave. For the money, frankly, it’s about as good a buy as anything I’ve seen out there.
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I was looking more at Mazda.
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Mazda’s a great car, too. I mean, again, here’s the thing, Dave, and I should have added this. They’re all good. And let me explain why I say that. For the most part. The majority of them are built with the same parts coming from the same manufacturers of said parts. That manufacturer is really not a manufacturer. They’re an assembler. About the only thing in today’s world that a car manufacturer makes is they stamp the bodies… And they may make the engine. Even the components of the engine they won’t make. They’re farming those out to different suppliers that supply the different parts that go in the engine. But they may do some of the basics of in the plant itself. But when it comes to… The car itself, they are literally assembling everything. I mean, the seats are made by somebody else. The headliner is made by somebody else. The glass, the seatbelts, the steering, the alternator. I mean, I can go down the list, Dave. All of those parts are pretty universal across the board. Asian manufacturers will use typically Asian suppliers, European cars will use European suppliers, and the American car companies will use a combination thereof. But at the end of the day, they’re all pretty much coming with very, very similar parts on them.
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Well, I heard that one has a lot more maintenance than the others and so on.
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European cars will typically require… more maintenance and it’s more expensive to do versus their Asian-American counterparts. So that part is true. The Mazda, again, Dave, I’ve got nothing bad to say about Mazda whatsoever. They’re a very good brand and build a very good car, but so do a lot of other manufacturers.
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But you said the Buick. I haven’t looked at American manufacturers since… Years ago when I bought them and they were terrible.
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And, you know, back in the 70s and 80s, that really wasn’t far off, although I think they got a bad rap in some cases because what the Asian companies did was they just trained their customers to do better maintenance than what the American cars did. In today’s world, though, Dave, and I’m not exaggerating, it really comes down to, again, you, the care for the vehicle, how you’re driving it and so on, and making sure you buy the right vehicle for what you’re doing. You do that, any of them are fine.
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I almost bought a Hyundai last year, and I got home, and I didn’t buy it because they didn’t have the color, and I called my insurance, and he said they’d drop me off my insurance. They wouldn’t even insure it.
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Interesting. That’s a new one. I hadn’t heard that on particular makeshift. Some of those vehicles, because of theft, is why some insurance companies were doing that. And again, even on Hyundai, Kia, that’s a thing of the past because they’ve gotten past that as well. So I don’t think you’ll find that today.
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Yeah, well, my insurance state farm said that if it didn’t have a key fob, they wouldn’t introduce it.
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Yep, there you go. So, yeah, that’s exactly correct. That’s a thing of the past now. They’ll all have that. But, Dave, again, I’m not going to knock the Mazda. I mean, you could go buy a Mazda 3, for example, in that price range you’re looking at, and it’s a great car. Nothing wrong with it at all.
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You don’t see much difference in maintenance and in warranties?
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Nope. What I see the biggest difference is, and this is where you and I say this to everybody that’s out there, and I’ll have a car review coming up here in a few minutes that we’ll play because we do that on a regular basis as well. And I’ve got car reviews on the website, Dave. But really what I tell people, even in those reviews, go drive the car yourself. Make sure you feel that it fits you, and that’s hard to do in a 10-minute test drive. So I tell people all the time, if you’re really interested in buying a new car, go rent what you think you want to buy for a day or two. Put some miles on it because you’re in Colorado. When you buy that car, you own it. You are not taking it back.
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Yeah, I understand what you mean. In fact, I’ve tried to do that, and I can never seem to find the one. I want the road noise, everything.
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You know, you don’t get that in a 10-minute-around-the-block test drive.
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No, you don’t. It controls what you like, what you don’t like.
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That’s right. And, again, Dave, and I’m not trying to push the Buick on you, but I drove that car the other day, and some of what you just mentioned, road noise, drivability, function, so on, top of the line. I had no complaints whatsoever. It was a very luxurious vehicle for $30,000. Yeah.
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How does that compare to, like, a Hyundai Santa Fe or something like that?
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A little bit smaller. The Santa Fe is a larger SUV. Now, to credit Hyundai-Kia, they’re building you a vehicle with a lot of features and functionality that some of the other makes and models in the same arena will not have, and that’s one of the advantages that Kia-Hyundai have, is they’re giving you more vehicle for the same money. That’s kind of their claim to fame. And again, would it keep me from buying a Kia, Dave? No. I mean, Joe from Jersey has a Kia Telluride, and my sister had one for quite some time. Would I own a Kia? Yeah, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings at all.
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Is there much difference between Kia and Hyundai?
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Same car, same company. It’s like driving a Buick and a Chevy. So Hyundai is the parent company of Kia.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, I know that. But I thought Hyundai was a lower, I mean, Kia was a lower.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, like I just said, you look at Buick and Chevrolet. Buick is a more quote-unquote luxury brand inside of the GM lineup than what a Chevy is, but same car.
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Features on the Buick you mentioned, you know, like side notification. All there. All there. Yep, all there.
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Yep, all there.
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Do they offer anything a little bigger?
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They do.
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What you would call midsize?
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Yes, they do, actually. In fact, I’m going to be driving. Hang on. As we speak, I didn’t even think about this. Give me one second here. I will start driving on Monday. Let me check my email. I apologize, Dave. I didn’t have this at the top of my head. I have got an Enclave, which is a little larger vehicle than what I just drove. I’ll be driving that this next week.
SPEAKER 05 :
Is there any way I can get the number off there or something or get an email or something?
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Yeah, let’s do this. I’ll have Charlie take your call off air. I can get an email or even a text message. We can go back and forth that way. Be happy to do that, Dave. Let me put you on hold. Charlie will get that info. I’ve got a car review coming up next. Hang tight. Jim in Westminster, I’ll take you right after the break. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. All right, we do car reviews on almost a weekly basis. I’ve got one to do this week, Richard, a 2025 Infiniti QX80, the autograph edition. This is their larger SUV, kind of the size, think, you know, Escalade is really the market that they’re… competing in you know uh the the lincoln side of the fence and so on as well this one starts out at 110k 3.5 liter twin turbo v6 450 horsepower nine speed automatic transmission i average 19 miles to the gallon and i will tell you richard that at first i could i could fire it up i’m like oh v6 Yeah, you kind of do that until you drive it. And then I’m like, holy cow, does this thing run? And I’m not exaggerating. This thing ran fabulous.
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Angel, it’s interesting you say that because I know that they obviously have undergone a refresh on this vehicle, Dad. Obviously not to mention the underpinnings because it used to have a V8 in it.
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Correct.
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And actually the V8 didn’t run half bad, but it sounds like they’re going the way of some of their competitors and going with turbocharged. But it sounds like they’ve got the tuning right on this because that’s a big car.
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It’s big. It is no slouch. No, it is a big car, and for those of you listening, you wouldn’t think that this vehicle, especially at our elevation and the weight of the car to Richard’s point and so on, this thing puts out 450 horsepower and it’s over 500 foot-pound of torque. This thing flat runs, and again, I average close to 20 miles to the gallon. In fact, I kept watching the gas gauge thinking… This thing really isn’t moving much. Granted, it’s got a big tank, but I’m thinking the mileage must be really good. So then I’m dinking around, going through the computer and so on, which I’ll get into in a moment and figure it out. Yep, getting 19 miles to the gallon. This particular model comes with the ProPILOT built-in dash cams front and rear, which, by the way, I will say, very cool. I’ve never really been in a vehicle where it’s all been built in like this one, Richard. And I will tell you that I could see at times where that would be extremely handy to have. So kudos, Infinity. That part of it is really, I mean, they did that very well. That’s all I can say.
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Well, and again, especially on a larger car, right, this is meant to haul people, right, kids, other adults, things of that nature. Having something like that is kind of a feature, like, oh, maybe I can go without it. But like you say, it’s one of those things where you’re not really sure you need it until you have it. Then once you have it, you’re like, man, I don’t know how I live without this.
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No, it’s awesome. I mean, I enjoy driving it. The ProPILOT is their self-driving feature, again, that comes on this autograph version, TriZone HVAC. And by the way, before any of you start saying, well, yeah, John, but it’s $110,000. Yeah, and so are Lincolns, and so are Cadillacs, and you get where I’m going with that, Richard. The reality is that’s what they’re competing with, and it fits right into that segment.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and especially, like you say, Matt, luxury, large SUV, because I believe this has got a third row, correct?
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Third row, captain’s chairs in the middle, full screens. I mean, this thing’s got all the technology. I mean, it would take me 15, 20 minutes to go through all of the technology this thing has. Best thing is just get in it and drive it. But, I mean, even adjustable, not just front and back on the middle seats, but, like, fully adjustable, like your regular front, you know, drivers and passenger seats. I mean, electric adjustable is what I’m getting at.
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Yes, and what I was going to say, from what it sounds like, and you have to have that on these top-level editions. That’s right. Could you get a QX80 for less than this, folks? You absolutely could. Will it still haul people the same way? Yes, it could. But again, this is competing with the best of the best, the top luxury models, all of the different things, right? And it’s meant to, right? It’s supposed to have every bell and whistle that you can imagine for the comfort of the passengers, the driver, that sort of thing. And again, especially if you’re hauling kids, long road trips, whatever it might be, it’s got all the creature comforts that you can imagine. And be in this car for a long time and not feel like you’re… No, I know.
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In fact, we kept commenting. My wife, we went and did quite a bit of driving around over the weekend. And my wife even kept commenting that, you know, man, this is really, I mean, quiet. The ride quality, the way it drives. I mean, everything about it. I mean, I’ll just tell Infinity, you guys did a fabulous job. Your refresh of it was needed. You did a great job. Some people… Love the look. Some people hate the look. I’m kind of in between. It doesn’t bother me. Is it my favorite? It’s just a good, I mean, it’s a good looking vehicle. They did a great job on the refresh of the nose and everything on the vehicle, the interior creature comforts, everything about this vehicle. If you’re in the market for a big, full-size SUV that will still get 20 miles to the gallon, you know, running around town and probably more on the highway, Richard, at the end of the day, honestly, this thing competes right in its market with everything else.
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I was going to say, and it seems like it does. I’ve seen some of the newer runs running around town. It seems like, again, the refresh, it kind of had a rounded edge right before. We used to call it the football car. We did, because the color, we got it, and I think it was kind of like brown like a football. Chocolate, yeah. Chocolate, that’s right. And so, honestly, from what I can see, Dad, this sounds like a fantastic car. And if you’re in the market, again, for that large three-row SUV, which there’s not a ton of them, and there’s some three-row SUVs there, but they’re not large like this one.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
And other varieties, it sounds like this is definitely right up there and should be mindful of it to include in their selection.
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It’s a small segment. There’s not a lot of manufacturers doing full-size three-row SUVs. This thing’s got every bell and whistle you can imagine. So if you’re in the market, I would highly recommend, don’t just go out and drive a Cadillac. Just don’t go out and drive a Lincoln. Go test drive an Infiniti QX80 as well. You will not be surprised, or maybe I should rephrase it. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how well and comfortable this particular vehicle is. And their infotainment thing, Richard, in closing – Top notch. Finally redid all of that much, much better than it used to be. No more of the goofy little click wheel and some of the things they’ve done in the past. All that’s gone. Total refresh. The thing is awesome. Again, folks, if you’re in the market for one of these things, go check it out at your local Infinity dealer. Tell them that John and Richard Rush both from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Jim in Westminster, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, I just want to tell you how refreshing you guys are. Well, thank you. You give a channel on and we get a good, we get unbiased opinion and you’re so knowledgeable. Well, thank you. The question I’m going to ask you is, in regards, I’m thinking about getting solar panels and there’s that 30% tax credit as part of the inflation thing. What do you think of that? You think that’s going to go away or you think we got a little time left or what?
SPEAKER 03 :
If it goes away, there’ll be time on it because none of that stuff can happen automatically and they can’t roll it back. In that particular case, they would have to go through the House and get approved and all of that. So I don’t see that going away anytime soon. Will there be some things in that infrastructure, which, as I said earlier, is really an inflation act when it’s all said and done, but will there be some things rolled back out of that? Yeah, Jim, I could see some things rolled back. Now, one other thing, too, that I would… And this is nothing against solar, because I think in certain applications, solar works very well. But one of the things that I think I would be paying very close attention to, Jim, is if… The new administration puts out some sort of even incentives to have some of these smaller nuclear power plants built around the country, which there’s already a lot of talk from both sides of the aisle in doing. And even some of these big server farms that are out there and such, they’re talking about doing those on a local basis. If some of that… gets going and takes off, I’m not saying solar is a bad deal, but if that takes off, you could see energy prices across the board come down, making solar a little bit obsolete.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, never thought of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it sure does. I heard something about that, and I think that’s a great idea for that, because they’ve got to build up… When it gets dark, they’ve got to supply the needs of off-peak hours.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right. So if that ends up… happening. And I’m not saying that it will immediately. But if some of what I just said happens or even the Trump administration comes in and resets some things and, you know, get some coal plants up and running again, clean coal, things along those lines, natural gas even. I mean, if some of those things happen and we start pushing more power into the grid, which everybody knows we need to do, that’s a bipartisan thing, Jim. Everybody knows we need more. more power if that starts to happen um and power you know kilowatt per hour comes down instead of going up well that changes the math on solar well that’s usually things don’t go down especially when it comes to xl and all that but well they’re a p keep in mind that’s a puc so if overall the cost of electricity has you know it drops they don’t have any choice it’ll have to drop
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I gotcha. They would be mandated to make it drop. They don’t have a choice.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m doing my research, and I’m thinking, you know, but I’m running late for this year. But for next year, I was thinking about doing something like that. That’s why.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and the only way that works, as you know, is with those credits. Otherwise, no, it does not work.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, no, it wouldn’t work without the credit.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right. So you have to factor that in. You’re absolutely right, Jim.
SPEAKER 07 :
They’re even offering a 10% if it’s made in America solar panel.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
So that’s 40% off versus the 30%, which is the taxpayers are paying.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, everybody’s paying, but I would be the first to tell people that if you don’t take it, somebody else is. I’m not going to go against you, Jim, because you take it. It’s there collectively, and it’s already, in a way, budgeted in, and unless it’s rolled back, it is what it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
For sure, for sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
So, yeah, I’m no different than you. I would look at it the same way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you’re a good man. I appreciate you. You’re very welcome, Jim.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
I got my radio on 560.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I appreciate you, Jim. Thank you very much. Keep listening, and we’ll keep throwing things your way. Mark, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
I had a question on the old Dodge V10. Yes, yes. It’s… I’ve got a 2001 four-wheel drive Dodge truck with that V10 in it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I had one of those for a long time, actually.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I mean, of course, the gas mileage is horrible. Yep, awful. Good engine, though. Okay. One of the things I was researching was why it got such bad gas mileage, and they said it did not have a fuel return line.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, it might be part of it. The biggest reason is it’s just a lot of cubic inches. And anytime you add other cylinders, even versus, this is where folks sometimes maybe don’t understand, but even making a, for example… Mark, a V6 with a little bit larger displacement will still get better fuel economy. Typically, there are some exceptions, but typically it will get better fuel economy than a V8 of the same cubic inches because every cylinder just requires more and you lose efficiency with those other cylinders.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And this one’s four-wheel drive.
SPEAKER 03 :
Which even makes it worse.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s more. But I guess my question was, why would… why would having no fuel return make a difference? And what I’m thinking,
SPEAKER 03 :
about is that the fuel to air mixture if it’s running it isn’t gonna i don’t whoever said that that’s not totally correct in fact i would say that’s incorrect not having a return line and actually i mean even if it’s dead heading in it’s still using a certain amount of fuel through the injectors to make the stochi stochiometric you know the 14.7 to 1 happen and it’s going to control that as much as it possibly can the reality is there’s just a lot there to have to feed Got it, got it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, thanks.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s why they didn’t do more than 10 miles to the gallon. Right. You know, 9, 10. I mean, at best, you might get 12 on a good day, but it’s a 10-mile-to-the-gallon vehicle.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I used to have a two-wheel drive, and that seemed like it got a lot better mileage.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it would do better, not near as much weight that it’s carrying around. And, of course, as you know, that’s a little bit higher RPM engine as well. They didn’t have a lot of low-end torque. Pistons are small.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Well, I had to choose between car payments and gas payments. I chose gas payments.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s fine. I can’t say as I blame you. Nothing wrong with that at all, Mark. Yeah. It’s still a robust engine. I mean, they’ll still run a very, very long time. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, good. Yeah, this has only got 117,000 miles.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, you’ve got a lot of life left. You’re not even half there yet. Yeah. So you’re good. You’re good. And by the way, Mark, gas prices are going to be coming down. That I can guarantee you. Mm-hmm. That would be nice. As you know, because you’re going to watch the price of oil. I was reading some things yesterday, and this applies to everybody. Again, not a political statement. This is just a fact. You’re going to see oil prices in the not-too-distant-future market about $60 a barrel. Wow. So we’re at $72-ish, $74-ish now. Look at the prices at the pump. Take $10 off. You’re going to see gas prices in the low twos.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it seems kind of interesting to me. It seems like oil, in terms of barrels of oil, the price went way down over the last six months. But the price of gas kind of stayed up there. It even got higher. So I don’t understand that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Some of that has to do with the refining capacity. And again, I go back to what I keep harping on, which… Really quick, I’ll probably talk about this Monday, and this will be something right up your alley, Mark. There is now, as we speak, a website that the new administration has put up whereby if there are certain things you’d like to see government do – laws passed, bills introduced, and so on – They’re collectively taking those. So, for example, if in my case, I want to see four blends of fuel nationwide. There is no reason to have 24 blends of fuel. We could have four blends of fuel and bring prices down overnight. And this administration, that is one thing a Donald Trump with an executive order could do overnight. Excellent. And those are the sorts of things that would make huge differences in the overall cost of things, Mark. And the reality is this website, I think they’re going to get a lot of ideas from.
SPEAKER 06 :
Super. And I like the fact that Elon Musk is in there trying to make things more efficient.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m guessing that between him and RFK Jr. and probably Trump himself, that’s where this website came from. Uh-huh. And I don’t have it off the top of my head. I’ll bring it in and have it for you guys, you know, this week. I’ll bring it in on The Daily Show. Okay. Okay. All righty. All right, Mark. No, great questions. Appreciate it very much. We’ll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. And all the text messages, I will do my very best to read those and or respond here at the top of the hour. I apologize when I’m by myself, which we are today. Ken Rackley was going to try to join me today from Toontech Automotive, and he has snowed in. He’s got a lot going on. He just texted me a moment ago. And he was going to try his best to get in, but he’s digging out. So he’s out in far southeast part of the metro area, clear out towards Elizabeth. And they got a lot of snow. He sent me some pictures this morning. And for those of you out in that area, you know exactly what. I’m talking about. So anyways, appreciate y’all listening and texting as well. And as I said a moment ago, I will do my best over the weekend. And Charlie reminded me that sometimes things that are pushed out on the Internet aren’t always true. And I will verify that there is, in fact, going to be a. Government suggestion box, I guess, is what you could call it. But from the little bit that I read and saw, there’s a URL and so on, and I did not go to it yet. But I will do some research over the weekend and this next week come back and give you some thoughts on that and let you know what I actually find and is it legit in all of that as well. So appreciate that. We do have lines open, 303-477. Again, 303-477-5600. And I’ve got all sorts of things coming in on accidents that have happened, different things and so on. And, again, I’ll try to read all of those here in just a moment. I can comment on those when I come back from the top of the hour break. But back to just government regulations, what’s going to happen with – the new administration, some of the things I just talked about a moment ago in regards to electricity, power, fuel, the natural resource end of things. I think one thing you can pretty much bank on, whether that government suggestion thing is real or not, I’ll get into that next week. But what I can pretty much assure you on is part of what got Donald Trump elected— And I’ve talked about it during the week, and I’m not going to get into the politics of it today, but the whole energy thing is a big deal to people. Everybody knows that when they pay more to heat and power their home, put fuel in their car, the groceries they buy are directly affected by the cost of fuel. Even people that are not high on the education politically, I mean, end of things, know what I just said is true. They can look at the price at the pump. They see how much it’s costing to heat their home from what it was four years ago. These are things that are near and dear to them, and it’s partially, not all, but it’s partially why Donald Trump was elected on Tuesday. So what I can assure you of is that administration will work really hard right off the bat to lower those things. That one I can guarantee you. Now, there’s all sorts of tools in the toolbox whereby that can be done. And at the end of the day, like I said earlier, will you see the barrel of oil price go down? Yes, you will. Will you see – which, again, if the price of oil goes down, so does the price of fuel. It’s not exactly direct, and I’ve explained that on this program in the past. I’ve even had oil experts on in the past explaining some of that. It’s not an exact correlation or a direct correlation, but – If the price of oil comes down, the price of the pump will as well. Now, there’s other factors that come into play throughout the year depending upon where we’re at, supply, demand, refinery, capacity, and so on. But in general, as the price of oil comes down, so does the price of fuel. As we drill more… and we explore more and we bring more product to market, the price of those things come down, oil and natural gas. And as I said earlier, we have a vast array of coal in this country, so much so we ship it offshore. And if we were able to use that to generate power and keep in mind, we’ve shut because of this administration in states and so on. We’ve shut some of those down. If some of those can come back online and put power back into the grid, it will naturally because when there’s more supply. and the demand stays the same, the prices will come down. Doesn’t matter what we’re talking about. That’s the way economies work, and something that one side of the aisle doesn’t seem to understand. They think you can price control something and therefore affect the price. Actually, nothing is worse for the economy than price controls. Let the free market do what the free market does, and it will control itself. Now, I understand some things aren’t totally free. Some of what I just mentioned isn’t completely a free market, although it’s as close to it as you’re going to get in that situation. Utilities are regulated by typically the state. I understand that. oil and drilling and so on. There’s a lot of factors that come into that in regards to leases and government regulation and so on. But remember, four years ago and the four years prior, so go back eight years, almost overnight, Donald Trump came in and changed some of those things and deregulated things and took regulation away, which stimulated a lot of the things that I just mentioned, meaning the economy got much better. So keep in mind the Fed lowered interest rates Thursday, meaning that those of you even that are going to buy a new car and do some things like that in the next several months, the cost of doing so will actually come down. Now, on top of that, and I can come back and talk about this in the next hour, inventories are up. You’re going to see more deals on new cars, especially as we approach year end. So those of you that are interested in new cars, you should be looking and shopping now, deciding what you’re going to buy, because by December, mark my words, prices will come down on cars. because the supply is way up now you might find some unique car that’s a little bit different in that aspect but in general they’re going to come down in price because image i read this morning there’s 2.8 i want to say 2.7 2.8 million cars on lots in the country right now that’s a lot of inventory meaning that prices will come down and the financing will get better As well. All right. Hour number three is coming up next. Don’t go anywhere. Lines are open 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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