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Brandon Aceto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
333 total appearances

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PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

Yeah, I really hate waste of potential more than anything.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

And the amount of money that's been poured into the EV initiative, it's so sad because, like, we talk about all the time about the things that actually would benefit from government subsidies, like, you know, like a home builders initiative or initiative to build nuclear reactors to give us more power for the country.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

but we've spent probably hundreds of billions of dollars over the last 10 years into trying to pressure or incentivize companies into building EVs.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

And I sent Rob a chart that shows the amount of material that is required to build an EV versus a gas-powered car.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

And does this look like a good return on investment, especially when the output of energy is not higher?

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

Can you explain to us what this means?

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

So the green circles are the amount of materials like metals and whatnot that go into the inputs of a car.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

The black circles are gas-powered cars.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

Yes, correct.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

It's just, you know, it's not something that I think would be created if the market wasn't being forced to create it.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

That's the point, is that the government's putting a lot of pressure on companies to build it.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

But it's not something that would be really profitable or a good return on investment, I think, to build if they weren't getting pressure to do it.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

We could debate that.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

But I almost wonder, since energy matches the population growth, I almost wonder if the government wants to do this to maybe slow population growth because the more energy you have in the country that's free and accessible, the faster the population grows.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

So it creates a lot of weird questions why they're saying that we need this to save the world, why they're saying we're running out of oil when we've established that we're probably not.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

Yeah.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

A lot of them, no, we don't have abundant amounts of it.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

And a lot of them, you know, they're in places like China.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

They're in South America.

PBD Podcast
DeSantis Fights Trump On AI, Ford's $19B EV DISASTER + Musk's Net Worth SKYROCKETS | PBD Podcast | Ep. 701

So, yeah, no, it's not readily accessible.