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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, I've never seen anybody over fill a coling system.

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Speaker 1: Incorrectly mixed, yes, but overfill a caring system. Never seen

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Speaker 1: car Doctor, make sure when you put that air bag

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Speaker 1: of the house. You irritated the gods. You must now

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Speaker 1: be smeared with the Holy Greece of disdain. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the radio home of ron and Nanian the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: your engines. Tom Where did you get that from? Who

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Speaker 1: is that is that Tim Allen. That was buzz Lightyear.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Tim was Tim Allen? That was buzz Lightyear? Right, okay, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well Tim Allen is buzz Lightyear. I beg your pardon.

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Speaker 1: I was l buzz Lightyear is a real real person, Tony.

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Speaker 1: you know, we probably should have done this before we

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Speaker 1: but anyway, UM, thank you Mr Ray for once again

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Speaker 1: All right, where will we be without Jerry Seinfeld? YadA YadA, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the car doctor here seven plus years, we're talking about cars.

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Speaker 1: pressure aswa seventeen pounds and at two thousand RPMs it

425
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: goes to about twenty. Okay, that normal sounds low. This

426
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: is a port fuel injected four O GEP right, yeah,

427
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: for a four leader Okay, what was manifold vacuum in

428
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: the manifold vacuum at idle sixteen to seventeen and then acceleration. Yeah,

429
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,479
Speaker 1: so when you when when you throttel it up, uh,

430
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: it loses it's it's vacuum. It drops down to zero

431
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: and then it comes back. Um. Yeah, and that's and

432
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: and that's a normal occurrence you know, because of uh

433
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's you're opening the throttle plates and there's

434
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,160
Speaker 1: there's there's equalization between atmosphere pressure and the engine itself.

435
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that to me. That that doesn't bother me. Um,

436
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: that that doesn't bother me. Was there something else I

437
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 1: wanted you to check? I'm trying to remember, Um I was.

438
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: I don't have a scope, so I was in the

439
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: able to check the camera crank sensors. But um, I've

440
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: changed them. But I'm fairly certain that they're working because

441
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: I'm getting five volts at the computer off the off

442
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: the speed, and you were and you weren't before, correct,

443
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: I wasn't, but I was testing it wrong. So I

444
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: plugged it into the computer and tested it, and then

445
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: then I was getting the five volts well, because didn't

446
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: this problem originally start out as as some sort of

447
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 1: vehicle speed vehicle speed sensor, right right right? It started

448
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: out as a five vault reference loss or something like that. Yeah, okay, alright,

449
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: so let's go back to fuel pressure. You've got what

450
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,959
Speaker 1: for fuel pressure at idole? Okay, at idle seventeen pounds?

451
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 1: This is the engines running, with the engine running. Yeah,

452
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: that's way long. That's yeah, a thousand RPMs. It's a

453
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: it's a twin. Now. I went out and I checked

454
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 1: it again today just for giggles. Um today, when I

455
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 1: did it the idle, the needle was um oscillating really

456
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: fast between like fifteen and twenty. I mean, it was

457
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: just you could hardly see it, it was moving so fast.

458
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: And then when I idled it up, if it cleared

459
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: out and steadied, that steadied out in twenty. Well, there's

460
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 1: there's there's not a lot to look at here. This

461
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: is either your fuel pressure gauge is broken, all right,

462
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: you've got the adapter on wrong. I'm just giving you

463
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: all the possibilities you've you've you've got the adapter on wrong,

464
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: or you've got a fuel pressure problem. Because if memory

465
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: serves me correct, and I would tell you to look

466
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: up the spec. But if memory serves me correct, at idle,

467
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: this should have forty five to fifty pounds of fuel pressure.

468
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: That's that's what I thought too. So it's at seventeen pounds.

469
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: I you've got an issue, all right? So you know

470
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: here we go, right. I think our conversation a month

471
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: and a half ago started where you had five vault

472
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: reference problems and you changed and it was vehicle speed

473
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: sensor related. If I remember right, didn't you have a

474
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: five oh two or a five oh five fault code

475
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 1: or something. Um, I had a H five oh seven.

476
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: It was for the vehicle speed sensor. Yeah, and and

477
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: I remember you changed it, and then the characteristics of

478
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: that problem changed, and then the vehicle developed this problem. Yeah,

479
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: I had zero. Okay, right, that's what it was. Uma.

480
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: I see a few vehicles during the weekend. On the weekend,

481
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: I understand. Um, so you know now that's why I

482
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: said last week, let's go back to square one. Let's

483
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: diagnose this like technicians, let's go back to let's let's

484
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: go start over. If you've really got seventeen pounds of

485
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: fuel pressure, something's wrong, something's way wrong. Um, I'm surprised

486
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: the truck's running. So you know, let's let's talk about

487
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 1: how how how dirty is the filter? The filter? The

488
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: filter has got to be plugged for it to have

489
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: said that. It can't because I gotta tell you it's

490
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: rare when I've seen a fuel filter. I'm not saying

491
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: it's impossible, but it's rare. When I see a fuel filter,

492
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: you know, limit operation to this degree. Uh, It's it's

493
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: amazing what a fuel filter will put up with. Not

494
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: to say that a plug fuel filter won't shorten pump life.

495
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: Where if if you call me back next week and

496
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: go round the fuel filter was plug solid. I put

497
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: a filter on it, the truck runs great. I'm gonna

498
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm gonna tell you to get ready to

499
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: put a fuel pump on it because it's twenty years old,

500
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: it's got a hundred and eighty thousand miles on it,

501
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: and you just you just made the eighty year old

502
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: man run a three minute mile. You know, you've just

503
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: abused the holy heck out of it. So you know,

504
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: get ready to do a pump and do what it

505
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: You're convenience, not at the vehicle's convenience. So um, let's

506
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: let's focus on fuel pressure this week. Okay, I the

507
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: pump and uh filter or in the tank? Um? Right?

508
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: Is it not? Um? The filter? Isn't the filter frame

509
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: mounted in? No? I think you're right. I think they

510
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: are all right. I think it's in the tank. So

511
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: I will be dropping the tank right, So guess what

512
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna be. You're gonna put a pump in it. Yeah,

513
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: you got an Arrallyoto parts by you? Yeah? Yeah, get

514
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: over to Rallyoto parts. Tell him what you got let

515
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: them ask them. You know, what's a good fuel pump module,

516
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: and I like doing the fuel pump modules. You're gonna

517
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: get a new sending unit. You're gonna get all new parts.

518
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: Everything's there. You don't have to swap anything over. It's

519
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a little more expensive, but in the

520
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: long run, it's gonna come back to benefit because I

521
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: don't think you're going through all this to get rid

522
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: of the vehicle next Tuesday, right right, UM, I have

523
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: one question. I'll tell you what before you ask that, Mick, Mick,

524
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: before you that question, Len, pull over and take the

525
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: plus so I don't run over, um, and then I'll

526
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: come back to we'll talk about it from there. And

527
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: by the way, it's O'Reilly oteo dot com for anyone

528
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: looking up for information about them. Mick, don't go away.

529
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Five five zero nine

530
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: zero Iron eating the car Doctor. That's right. If you

531
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: call and we're not live, you can leave a message

532
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: and we'll call you back to get you on the

533
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: air with Ron eight five five zero nine nine zero zero.

534
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: Speaking of Ron here, he is. Welcome back. Let's go

535
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: over and we continue our conversation with Mick from Oregon. Mike,

536
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: you're still there. Yes, you had one more question. Yeah,

537
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: So when I got the tank and get the pump

538
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: out and filter out, is there a way when I

539
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: have the filter or the pump to like test it

540
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: or check it to determine that it is bad? Well,

541
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: you just did well, Yeah, with the gauge, I mean,

542
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: art is seventeen p s. I uh, you know it's

543
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: it's the only other thing you could do is verify

544
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: proper voltage and see what sort of amperage the pump

545
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: is pulling. If you want to get into the electrical side,

546
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: you know it's but if it's got you know, if

547
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: it's if it's if it's if the voltage is there,

548
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: the amperate should be there unless you see a wiring

549
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: harness issue of some type. But you know, I've I've

550
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: I've got to say, I think I've only seen current

551
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: as a problem once. And it wasn't the pumps. It

552
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: wasn't the harness issue. It was actually the pump itself.

553
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: It was the way the wiring was. There was an

554
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: issue inside the tank with the way the wiring was

555
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: shorting out against the sender. Uh, you know, but at

556
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: that point is that the original pump. Yeah, and it's

557
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: it's a what your vehicle it's got how many miles

558
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: on it? Yeah? I think you're done. Um, you know,

559
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: if it's like I said, it's it's it's always possible,

560
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: it's always possible you've got a bad gauge. Because that's

561
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: that's very extreme. All right, that's that's that's that's very extreme. Yeah,

562
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: I would. I would take that gauge and screw it

563
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: onto something else, you know, screw it on a known

564
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: good vehicle. That's you know, if if that vehicle is

565
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: supposed to have thirty pounds of pressure and the gauge

566
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: reads thirty pounds, you know, the gauge is right, you know.

567
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: But if you're screwed on a vehicle it's supposed to

568
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: have thirty pounds of pressure to reach seventeen, then the

569
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: gauge is bright. I'll check. I'll check that right. You know.

570
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Um what would that low uh fuel pressure? Would that

571
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: cause it to backfire? Sure? Lean miss lean backfire? Yeah? Absolutely,

572
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: oh absolutely, you know in the in the intake it's

573
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: been doing yeah absolutely lean backfire like that. Yeah. Yeah,

574
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: it's you know, um, okay, you know remember an engine's uh.

575
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: An engines are big air pump and a lot of

576
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: things are happening at correct time and moment. Uh you know.

577
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: The The only other question I have in the back

578
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: of my mind with this vehicle is why the timing

579
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: marks were off. You know, you couldn't find top on

580
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: the balancer, and I'm still sorting that one out in

581
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: my head. I haven't come up to an answer yet. Um. Right,

582
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: there's a notch in the pulley, but there's no index

583
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: on the on the cover, right, so there's you know,

584
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: short of pulling the timing cover. I'm trying to come

585
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: up with a reasonable way to verify top dead center

586
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: and um, I'm waiting for a four. Um I did

587
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: it with uh a balloon and a hose and then

588
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: right anyway, But anyway, let's let's focus on fuel pressure.

589
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: If you have any doubts before you change the pump,

590
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: call me next week if not. If if you can

591
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: prove that pump doesn't put out pressure, then it's let's

592
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: let's put a pump in it. Let's go from there,

593
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: all right, I will, I will go this way then, okay,

594
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: all right, good luck, keep me posted zero. The carcer

595
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: is coming. Right back. Don't go away real quick. Now, yeah,

596
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: here we are. Let's let's answer this email. Rono ending

597
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: the card doctor here. By the way, great show listen

598
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: every week. It's one of my first in my lineup.

599
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: I look forward to your insight and repair mindset. I

600
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: want to make a quick comment on the push towards

601
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: electric vehicles. This comes to us from Paul. I'm not

602
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: sure we're pole is from four fourth three area code. UM.

603
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: One thing I don't hear much to talk about is

604
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: the additional strain all these vehicles will place on the

605
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: national power grid wall charging Well, yeah, I mean that's

606
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of it too. Um. Also, where

607
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: will all that additional electrical energy required come from. I've

608
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: also seen how some folks that have all the electric

609
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: vehicles don't want to charge them at home due to

610
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: the increased drone costs. That seems kind of self defeating

611
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: to me, as that as one of the points that

612
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: they try to sell them on. The bottom line is

613
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: that it's extremely chugh to beat the energy density of

614
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: fossil fuels. I think that electric vehicles are definitely step

615
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: in the correct direction, but really not ready for prime time.

616
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: You made a great point in your left show about

617
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: how it's been a little more over a hundred years

618
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: and we finally just have conventional gas and diesel mostly

619
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: figured out. Makes me wonder what the next hundred years

620
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: will be like. Um, yeah, I I think the concern

621
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: is obviously emissions and you know, the pollution levels that

622
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: the that the earth is going through and and what

623
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: we're doing to it. Um, the problem is, Okay, what

624
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: I what I understand from what I read is things

625
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: are controlled here in the US, like we're doing a

626
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: pretty good job of cleaning up the environment in the

627
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: in the ear quality, But in a lot of other countries,

628
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: among which I've read China, Russia don't do as great

629
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: a job of policing emission controls there, and you know

630
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: a lot of open emission violations as compared to our standards.

631
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: And you know, the issue becomes, how do you get

632
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: them to correct their stuff? And you know, if they

633
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with internal combustion engines, and you

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Speaker 1: gotta come up with an alternate source that says, hey,

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Speaker 1: no matter what you do, you can't pollute with an

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Speaker 1: electric car. And that's why I think we're being pushed

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Speaker 1: in that direction. Whether it's you know, by the government,

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Speaker 1: the illuminati, or you know, anything in between. Sou that's right,

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Speaker 1: things going on, Paull. There's more to Paul's email. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about that next week because I'm rounding any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: Let's see you