How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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Why is the auto industry dying?
Okay, so here's my theory. The death of the U.S. auto industry was a bigger deal than I think we realized. Maybe a harbinger, hopefully not, but perhaps a harbinger of what happens to the country going forward. So Detroit dies, and people are like, oh, Detroit's such a mess. My wife is from there, so I've been there a lot. But you never thought that would happen to the rest of the country, right?
Oh, no, we're going similar ways.
We are. That's exactly right.
I live in the greater Toledo area, and that's baby Detroit.
Toledo. Exactly. Home of champion spark plugs.
Yeah. Yeah, no longer.
So I guess the question is, if we want to prevent this from spreading with the cancer that it clearly is, I think it's important to know the cause of it. So why did the auto industry, which was the most important non-defense industry we had, why did it die?
I would say largely regulation and the nature of trying to find more profit and where you ship things. It was a lack of pride in having a workforce in the future tomorrow. And those are the two things I would stick with. Because since, you know, in my opinion, you know, I've been a car guy for a long time.
Wait, you didn't mention the unions. Everyone blames the unions for the destruction of Detroit. Yeah.
I think that's a secondary symptom. I mean, that's a big thing, but I think culturally it has to do more with where we're going and what happened. I mean, the automotive industry right now, if you look at new cars, I don't own a new car. The newest vehicle I own is early 2000s. Really? The newest. Yeah. And honestly, I've been thinking like that's- And you're a professional car guy and you have no- Yeah, no, I work on all my own stuff from exotics to building race cars, helping students building airplanes to vintage stuff. Like I know automotive history. And honestly, kind of the sweet spot for cars to daily drive are the 1980s and 1990s. What? We've just gotten worse since then. In what ways?
Consumer culture. You know, they try to find new ways to make money, give something to buy a new model year. But cars haven't really gotten any better since the 1990s. They're coming in more like a cell phone. And then you get more and more and more regulation, which just stymies the automotive industry into building just the one thing. That's why all the cars look the same. That's why there's no real innovation. That's why anything interesting ends up being wildly expensive. And then the two things that are always used as, shall we say, the scapegoat is either the environment, the EPA, or safety. But it's not always about that. And if you're really worried about safety... Wait, wait, those are scapegoats?
Well, not scapegoats, but reasons to force things in to be a certain way. Because if you speak up and question anything, they'll always say, environment, safety. It seems like that's always the way. But we're always just quagmired in this regulation and direction. Right.
Well, you're blowing my mind. So, I mean, getting older is a process of realizing how many of the lies you've internalized and believed. And I guess if you had asked me when I woke up this morning what destroyed Detroit, I would say, I mean, I'm not actually even that against unions, to be honest with you. But I would say, well, everyone says the unions and EPA and safety. Ralph Nader and the EPA and the UAW. True. But no. True. It's deeper, you're saying.
Well, it is. And, okay, you know, I'm an individual. I build stuff. I think about the nation, individuals, community, my family, my friends. Like, we want a car that gets us there, that we can fix, that we can afford, right? But it's not what we're making. Another thing which I want to mention, two points. The other thing that's happening nowadays is... we don't really innovate or make anything new anymore that people can afford really. And I'm finding another, it seems like a symptom across culture of just everything now is about money from one pocket to another. It's not about really creating something new or building tomorrow. And I started to see that in the automotive industry with the nature of hybrids to electric.
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