Call with Anne from Lebanon to percolate. And this was a fine woman, a great listener of mine in Warren County, who just loves electric vehicle and which is fine. If you want to buy the Tesla's it's a free choice, have at it. And this was in relationship to a guest I had on yesterday, Cliff May who highlighted in his Washington Time story Blood of the
Congo. And this is all relative to Dale Donovan, of course, Blood in the Congo and the details talks about the horrible cost of the Congo, which is a Central African country where about ninety percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mind and how it's mind and how much is going on cobalt is and every lithium ion rechargeable battery made today according to the experts, and what the residents of the Congo go through so that you can have a full electric
vehicle from Tesla, etc. And Dale Donovan wanted to hear more about this. So here's one line from the story about how the cobalt mining takes place in the Congo. Not a lot of environmental concerns, needless to say,
and not a lot of money being paid to the miners. Quote. My investigation reveals that cobalt mining in the Congo involves human slavery, child labor, forced labor, debt bond each of the miners who have to pay in order to go into the mines, human trafficking, prostitution, hazardous and toxic working conditions, pathetic wages of a dollar a day, injury and death, and great environmental harm to the Congo itself. And the average age of those in
the minds are about sixteen and a half years old. And the China dominance not just the cobalt but also of strategic mineral necessary to produce all these ev batteries, including lithium, copper, and nicol. And what occurs is that, much like is happening now with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, is that the leadership of China pays off the leaders of a country with millions and millions of dollars personally in their pockets in order to rape and rob the country of
billions and billions of dollars. Does that sound familiar? Joining you and I now, is that Sam Dale Donovan Dale of Donovan. There's no one more cognizant about the repair of vehicles and the replacement than Dale Donovan, who you're showing fifty five krec a great family of great Americans. We don't know the price Africans pay so we can have better batteries. And these columns pointed out number one. I'll point out to you, Dale Donovan, that there's little
mainstream reporting on this. CBS, NBC, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post is not sending a team of reporters to the Congo to find out what's happening in the minds deep in the bowels of the Congo. We do know what comes to that? Are these lithium batteries, What kinds of experiences have you had? And vehicles that have are fully evings like Tesla's, And what is the cost of repairing them compared to gasoline powered ours? Well,
I thank you. My ears were burning yesterday, Yester as you were talking, and I was getting lots of phone calls about it, And you know, I'm with you. You want to buy an electric car, I have no problem with that, you know, I mean, you know, if you know, most electric cars are greatful when you run around the city. But man, if you plan on taking a trip to Florida or go up to Michigan and stuff like that. You've got to plan your route out accordingly.
And you know, there's a lot of things that go into the EV battery. Obviously, the EV battery is the main cost of the vehicle, right And I've used cases where we had a customer's car in the shop and they needed a battery call to get the battery from the dealer. So there are aftermarket people out there that sell the EV batteries. Okay, I've been doing this a long time. I've got friends that do this as well. And that aftermarket battery usually will last to be about a year, maybe two
years, so then you're got to have it replaced again. So we do not tell anybody to put an aftermark the battery in there. You have to go back and get the new battery. So to go buy the battery for this particular car was fifteen thousand dollars. Oh, but that's not all they wanted. They also wanted fifteen thousand dollars for the core of the battery because they need that battery back so they can dispose of it properly. Okay, So after you get the battery out, then you got to return the old
battery. And so your net investment is about thirty thousand dollars to put a battery in a Nasla or any nothing bigger laverage. You know, it's just a normal everyday car. You know, there's lot them out there. I mean Fiat has one that there's an electric vehicle out there that they have that the batteries are going bad left and right, and that is a usually a
cost of at least twenty thousand dollars for the evy battery. And that not to mention Willie, if you go ahead and you have a slight accident and you damage any part of that battery, but that it will also be ruined it if you scratch it, it is ruined. You cannot scratch that battery. It's you know, it's all in case in a nice cover and it's all you're covered up. You know which the battery is. It's all smaller
batteries, right. You think it's US big massive battery, which it is, but it's if you actually take it apart, it's all a bunch of small batteries. But they don't do it that way. You know, you can't just replace the damage battery. You've got to replace the whole thing. Okay. Now, not to mention, you go to buy a eb you go to buy an EV car, okay, and then you go to put your tags on it. You're gonna pay more money in taxes because you don't
pay taxes on your gas, so they charge you up front. Oh you want to charge that battery, well, great, not a problem, go ahead and have the charger installed in your house. That ranges from two thousand to seven thousand dollars to have it installed. Okay. So yes, are you gonna save some money on gas, yes, but you're gonna pay some money in charging. And again, Willie, what are we doing when we charge car battery up Are we saving the environment or are we using coal?
You know they should make a wall that if you buy an EB car, you should have to charge it either by solar or by wind. How long do you think that would say? And everyone's charging him at the same time, which is between seven pm and midnight. And guess what. When I talk to Duke Energy, etc. They Sally Phalan they're not in the business of expanding the power plants, they're in the business of shrinking power plants. So we have thirty five hundred powers that have power plants in this country.
By twenty thirty, we're gonna have twenty four hundred power plants. Now, what happens when you enlarge the demand for electricity and you shrink the supply. Let me tell you about basic economic principles. The price is going upward, it's going north. And so why is this happening when Number one, it's expensive. Number two, it's hard to travel with these EV vehicles. Number three, the power, it doesn't handle it. What's the motive, what's
the goal? What's happening? And so the gasoline and Ellie, yeah, go hallow the money follow the money. Well we're talking serious money now. For if Tony Bender wants to drive to Florida and say, honey, let's pile on the three kids in the back seat. Let's go to Florida. You can get there maybe within one day, at a cost of maybe eighty dollars or one hundred dollars two tanks to gas. What if you have an
EV and you want to go to Florida. What happens? Then? Oh my goodness, Well, you're gonna have to go out of your way most of the time because you have to plan your route according to where they tell you the chargers are, and you better hope that you're the only one they're charging when you need to charge it. Oh, I suggest that you start leaving about twelve midnight, and that way you can use the chargers because hopefully
no one will be there at that time. Don't forget Willie. So let's say you go to a place and there's three charging stations and you're like, oh, great, man, there's one emptier, I'll take that one. Well, as you add more people, it slows it down. Do you know what the average time or not the average You know how long it takes the charge in evy battery not anywhere from twenty twenty minutes to forty hours. It depends on the equipment, It depends on the power grid, It depends
on a lot of things. So man, I hope you've got a lot of time. I mean, it kills me just to pull over and get some gas, you know, for fifteen minutes. I can't imagine sitting there and charging your ev battery the whole time you're going to Florida or Michigan or wherever you know out west. I can't imagine how long it's gonna take you, but I can guarantee you it's gonna take you a couple of days. And you know, one you better hope that when you get to that charging
station, someone hasn't cut the cable off for the copper. Happens all the time in Oakley. Tesla's got this charging station, and a friend of mine has a Tesla. It's a year old. He's got to gauge where he's going, how he's going to get there. And secondly, when he goes to the Oakley station, which by the way, you got to put him credit cards to charge. He said, half the wires are gone at any
particular time because they cut and away they go. And the power grid right now in Texas is maxed out with one hundred and five hundred and ten degree temperatures and Texas which means, though telling everyone don't charge your cars, don't charge the car, we don't have a power grid. And we're getting rid of twenty five percent of the of the power stations in the next five years. We're getting rid of that. I'm figuring, no, wait a minute,
what is happening to my country? What is happening? Well, the only thing I can think of Willie and it's why. You know. The other thing is is, you know, I thought we were free, right, I thought America was free. I mean, now they're saying they're forcing these manufacturers, Hey, you gotta go electric by such and such, you know, but you know, there's other alternatives out there that make more sense. But oh, hydrogen, I guess there's not enough money getting kicked back.
Well for the other alternatives such as hydrogen. Hydrogen vehicles which they do have out in California, which is the only place in Toyota does make one. And also you can charge a hydrogen pretty fast, doesn't take as long it is. The storage is the issue. But man, they've made strides in it. That's the way I think they should go is hydrogen, you know. And uh but nope, it's it's that electric is getting forced down. It makes no sense whatsoever that the power grids are getting less, they're
making less power plants, and yet they're increasing everything. So everything's gonna So what's gonna happen. Either we're gonna have blackouts, which we could have here in Cincinnati, right, I guess, you know, I guess you better have a charger, you know, a charger for your house to kick on, so you know, so that you can you know, at least your house can stay cool, or you can charge your EV battery. But if they have power outs, you can't charge your battery. What if you're trying
to go. What if you have an emergency? Right? Oh? Man, you know someone you know hurt themselves. I got to rush into the hospital. Oh crap is not charged. The batter is not charged. What am I gonna do? I guess that you're gonna call nine one one to me. I mean, it is a formula that's worked for a long time.
You pay off and bribe the leaders of a country, and then you with millions of dollars, and then you have access to billions of dollars of economic activity in that country, whether it's the Congo or sadly the United States
of America. That is what's happening now that the communist right Chinese have bribed the leaders of our country, mainly Democrats but also Republicans to accept electric vehicles and all the glories of that, to get rid of all the mining in this country, all all the shale operations, all the oil drilling, all the natural guests, get rid of all that stuff demanded by government orders because of its clean energy. And at the end of the day, government will
control every aspect of even getting charged up. And if you don't pay, if you don't believe in the right kinds of stuff, guess what they'll get you off the grid. And if you're off the grid and they won't allow you to fire up your ev then you're in serious trouble. And this is in relationship to President Barack, who'saint Obama, who's really in his third term right now. No one really believes in Washington that Joe Biden is in charge
of anything he is proposing. And it will happen a disinformation board, and this disinformation board out of Washington will screen from the public view comments that are deemed to be disinformation and untrue. There goes talk radio number one, but number two, if you complain, know your role and shut your mouth if you And lastly, on this issue of evs, it is common among rich people like Tony Bender, to pass vehicles down from one generation to the other.
How about you drive a car for ninety thousand miles. It's a great vehicle, and then it needs a battery, it needs new batteries and it needs a new electrical core. And you want to pass that on to a sixteen year old girl for her first car. It's to hand me down. Does that happen with evs? Oh? Absolutely, it happened with evs. But you're just like you said. I mean, you know the lady that you had on yesterday. You know, she traded her car in, but
she'd already had the batteries replaced and the batteries replaced on that. Whether she had it done under wartee, that's fine, that's fine. But she you know, she got ten thousand dollars. So now you give your daughter a car, and now she has to do it because it's got ninety thousand Most of those evs are covered up to one hundred thousand miles. Okay, she's got ninety thousand miles on it goes one hundred and ten and all of a
sudden it needs a battery. She better sit down, man, you better find her another car because it's going to cost approximately the minimum's twenty thousand dollars. Okay to put a battery in these cars. You know, then it's just you know, it's and then if you know you got a young driver, you're passing it down again. If they have any type of an accident and uh, you know, and it does anything to the battery, it's done as well, so that car could be totaled. I do a lot
of work. There's a there's only one body shop in Cincinnati that if there's only one that I know of that is qualified to fix the tesla's And I do a lot of work with them. I help them out, they help me out, and they are so backed up with wrecked vehicles. And if you want to get your tesla fixed, I understand that they're about a month away. If I want to buy a part for a Tesla, I have to like join their tesla buying group. I have to join their group.
And it's um They usually charge me more than what the customer could literally go in there and buy it for. Okay, it all doesn't make sense to UMU. Willie, here's keep talking about ny He drives me crazy. I mean they're really famous. When he's got three, he's got three, or foy he's got more papers coming into mail. We'll see what happens down the road. But it seems to me like every act of green activism, every act is designed to make life harder for working people everything. But I can't
imagine electrician, a plumber, administrative assistant, a pharmacist. I can' working class people making between forty and eighty thousand dollars a year can of Ford's coming their way When beneath our feet is enough energy to solve our problems for the next hundred and fifty years at a low price. I can't imagine something more
designed to hurt the middle class. An invention of this great country after World War Two is being decimated by medical expenses, the southern border and energy expenses, and it's going to skyrocket between now and twenty thirty. Or Dale Donovan, I know you're on the golf course this Friday afternoon. You've got a seven foot put and I look forward to the renaming of Macatea Wall Country Club to the Donovan t And that's what it's going to be. And they'll be
drinking, there'll be smoking jackets and pipes. Going to be a wonderful time at Macatea Wall when it's the Donovan always is a great time, Willie. And let me know when you want to go out there. You can't. I can't wait to see the new course. Man, it's unbelievable. It is absolutely amazing. You're gonna love It'll just go make the next six foot put people tell me you get the yips, You got the yips, and we'll see if the yips. I'm lucky. I don't get the yips.
Willy great American. Keep up the good work, buddy. I appreciate it. I speak, I speak truth to power. Thank you very much. Let's continue with more. So when you buy one of these evs, understand that you're enslaving black kids and the congo scraping with their fingernails in the caves with the dirt in order to you have the virtue signaling of driving around in a damn tesla that basically is not going to work for the next ten to
twenty years. Congress cannot mandate engineering discoveries. It doesn't work that way. One day we're going to have dilithium crystals. It's going to be boundless sources of energy or cold nuclear or fusion, whatever the hell that is. But in the meantime, we have to work, we have to raise our families, and every act of green activism is designed to make your life more difficult
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