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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will Gas Powered Vehicles Ever Be Outlawed?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-17. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience do you think we're ever going to come to a time in
this country where internal combustion engines are outlawed I don't think so
man I really don't I think it's I think you're gonna see that like come full
circle just in my opinion Oh outlawed or gone away because well
California was outlawed as once for as well yeah it take California out of the
equation though I mean but that's what they're doing it's crazy you can't buy
new internal combustion engines after 2035 and I think this is like 20
something other states fixing to adopt it the same way because you can do it
without a vote yeah it's crazy they did it without a vote I don't think it
makes
sense I really don't I don't think there's enough minerals in the ground I
don't think they just the mining alone that would have to happen and the
reality
of what happens in that mining like people you need to understand what
they're talking about they're talking about batteries like this this idea that
batteries just come from ferries and that now all of a sudden you have this
like
zero carbon impact vehicle like that's nonsense that's complete total nonsense
you you're ignoring the entire supply process of what it takes to make that
what is with people that they don't they won't recognize that they don't want
to
recognize that some people didn't know about it until I had this guy on my
podcast said Darth Cara who wrote a book about it and he went to the Congo to
show these illegal mines like what they're doing
I mean it's not illegal there's no law right but they have children working in
these mines they have women working in these mines with babies on their back
and
they're they're they're mining toxic cobalt and this stuff is I mean there's no
protection there's no safety these people are like chipping the shit out of the
ground and that's a good percentage of all the cobalt that's involved in
electronics and batteries and cell phones and all the things that we need and
it's
not very publicized and it's it's this man exposed it and he risked his life to
do it
and he wrote a great book about it and the podcast was it was insane like
listening to
his story and how he risked his life to get this footage and you know and there
were
several times where there was men's guns and he got questioned and he had you
know a bunch
of people that were helping him but he got out of there eventually with this
reality that
everybody now is faced with it's like this is how they get the stuff that you
need to run
your cell phone like stop thinking that you know you have zero impact if you're
buying this
you're contributing to this we all are and we don't want to keep our fucking
heads buried in
the ground and pretend it's not happening yeah and to say that like everything
has to be electronic
like slow down like where is this coming from who's making it what who what
what are the conditions
like in the places where these people have to put your phone together what are
the conditions like
do you know foxconn has nets around the building because people were jumping
off what yeah where they
make iphones they they put nets around the building because so many people are
committing suicide
so instead the windows they're working constantly they work constantly they
sleep there they had beds
underneath their desks or their work areas it was sleep underneath work sleep
work show the photo of
the uh nets around foxhawk it's bun you just feel like some look at that oh jeez
their nets
all around the boys are listening it could be worse you know how wild that is
like if you're going to
jump off a building you can't do it here get out of here or if you do you
better have a good aim
man you're going to aim for where there's no net how do you explain that to
people like when you're
walking executives into the building we've had a huge bird problem we've had a
huge bird problem
how crazy that is you've had so many people commit suicide and your solution is
putting nets around the
building those people just go up to the top four fuck this bang i want it to be
over
just lock them like all the casinos do just lock the windows you gotta get to
the roof to do maintenance
there's just got to be like better representation of both sides so that people
understand well really
we should be making phones in america and they should be american made with
american wages where
people get health and dental and all the stuff you're supposed to get and you
have a living wage that's
what it's supposed to be and if your phone costs a little more to do that and
if i if apple makes a
little less that's how it's supposed to be you're not supposed to be using
slave labor to do stuff and
you know we don't have an ethical choice it's not like if you want to be a part
of today's society
you kind of have to have a smartphone if you're answering emails and doing
business it's way more
convenient to do that than not have one and there's not like this like very
obvious ethical choice like
hey this company only uses high paid labor everybody has insurance there's none
of that
if they only work x amount of hours a day there's none of that you you get
these things and they're
all manufactured overseas
if is it 2030 is the year is that what california's i think it's 2035 yeah if
if they were to do that
and say it was nationwide right and no new cars after 2020 2035 can be but they
don't touch i mean
obviously you're not gonna be able to do anything with it what's existing any
of the ice motors that
are out there that's gonna be like it's gonna be like judge dread yeah imagine
what the cost of like a
2020 f-150 would be worth then maybe more desirable or less desirable i mean
there's good i mean i would
assume that at least 50 something percent of the population is gonna be like
that i'm never going
that i'm gonna keep buying my yeah my gas motors right well the the thing that
always is going to be
an issue with uh cars is charging them it takes time right so you have to sit
there so if you're if
you're fully out of juice and you're on a cross-country trip how long does it
take when you go to those
supercharger stations to get you up to 100 again how long is that so a few
hours yeah longer than you
want to be sitting there yeah so damn sure with rising crime and having places
where you know
people are going to be stuck and no security especially in places like la good
luck with that oh yeah my
friend eddie was telling a story the other day about he almost got robbed at a
gas station and he realized
these guys were coming towards him and he got out just in time he's like you
know how you you've been
in your car so many times that you can just you know where everything is
instantly you don't have to
fumble he's as if that's what saved me that i just jumped in my car and i knew
how to and i was
just moving already crazy the guy was moving towards him dude that's a little
bit like the net scenario
though like what's the problem that we're not solving that like why the yeah
why are you afraid to go
sit there and charge your car at the gas station well you're gonna get robbed
for sitting there is
nobody looking at uh airline travel and the way planes are made with doing
anything away with
doing electric motors on that kind of shit
there's a concept really currently being developed for a solar power plane i
talked to a guy about it
like over a year ago and they were explaining it and they they have i think
they've done a bunch of
test flights and they're you know about and it's going to be able to go a long
way i just don't know
i don't know how that works you know i don't know like how much how much range
does it have how safe is
it like you know you don't want to be an early adopter not when you're in the
sky like flying
cars like you see flying cars like yeah i'm gonna sit that out yeah keep an eye
on it you know yeah
how many people are going to fly into power lines you know how many people are
going to fly into trees
and start forest fires i think that when they announced that in california wasn't
like the next
day they also had an announcement for people to stop charging their cars
because it was a week later
what a please don't charge that's the other thing it was too hot it maxed out
the grid if everybody
had an electric car the strain on the grid would be monumental i don't know if
most grids the way
they're set up right now would be able to handle that like if everybody had an
electric car wouldn't
that take like substantial upgrades to the grid yeah it's just infrastructure
joe we just do you just
like we just invest in infrastructure man i like how you're saying it like it
makes sense you're so
confident do you think they're worried about all of that stuff or they know
that it's impossible
that's why you push it out to it just looks really good on the ballot it does
look really good on the
ballot that's part of the problem this is a lot of people have these knee-jerk
reactions to like very
complex nuanced problems like the environment like i had mike baker on uh
yesterday and we we talked about
this and one of the things he's saying like the vast majority of the pollution
the carbon emissions in the
world is coming from china and india as the vast majority of it and they're not
going to change
they're not going to change what they do no matter what we do we're not going
to put a dent in what
they're doing and there's a bunch of people that think that the way to get us
out of this and the way
to mitigate climate change in terms of like human impact on it is actually to
build up poorer communities
and get them on electrical system get nuclear power to these places or so or
something and like elevate
their standard of life you'll have less pollution you'll have less you'll have
less pro you'll definitely
have less issues in terms of like health consequences the people that live
there and
in turn as they become more you know uh sustainable or they live a better life
their lifestyle is better
you'll have less pollution they just need it just people need to be incentivized
like they need to
have some sort of like there's places in the world that have no hope and they
just burn tires they don't
give a right right like they're not thinking about the environment they're
thinking about how do i get by
how do i stay alive i'm back to your point on making stuff here i'm what i don't
know the
numbers but i'm wondering what if you were to say in 10 years we're requiring
90 of every single
thing we use to be made in the usa right so you cut out all that air freight
and all that that freight
line all the shipping shipping is huge and everyone wants to talk about
providing jobs if we take if we
take all that what does that do for the carbon footprint if we're not shipping
all those freighters
yeah we're building here if you google that and granted this is just me like
looking at google
doing google research but look at what look at what a container ship uses in
fuel consumption it's
insane it's like the equivalent of like every single vehicle in the united
states like in it
annually like just back it seems like a huge dent you would put in it by us
making this here and
using it here that would be a big dent that would be massive there's i mean
that's obviously a long-term
project unfortunately manufacturing really kind of like got out of the united
states when they started
shipping and building cars overseas and ruined detroit i mean detroit just fell
apart that roger and me
movie did you guys ever see that never seen never heard of it you never heard
of it it's um what the
fuck's his name jamie michael moore michael moore that guy uh it's a great
documentary and it's about
flint michigan it's about um right after they closed all the plants down and
everybody just had nothing
they had nothing to do and just like the city collapsed and all that happened
because they wanted to make
shit cheaper yeah they wanted to pay people less and it's uh more profitable
for them to have uh you
know their manufacturing plants in other countries dude it's nuts that was that
the one song for whitey
the other day yeah you know whitey morgan country yeah i've heard the name we
went he was on the podcast
and we went to he did a local show and stuff like that he's from flint and his
his dad and granddad
worked in the auto and he does has a song and he was telling yeah we were
talking to him about like
michigan it came up because you know we go to shows in michigan and michigan's
got a very
like southern redneck pocket right very it's weird because of how north it is
but he talked about
all the people from the south moved up there for these auto jobs and all the
wages right and it just
it's that area but he talked about the same thing when it when they shut it
down i mean it just
killed that specifically flint that's where he's from it's a horrible story and
they did that because
they wanted to make more money imagine knowing that you're going to just
destroy thousands of
people's lives like instantly i'm not like yeah i want to make more money i'm
not trying to put you
on blast i really want to know on a normal let's see where this is going on a
normal i like how the
kids say that these days put you on blast well on a purchasing decision when
you're going to buy
something how big how does that weigh on you knowing that it's made in america
well i'd like to buy
everything made in america if it was possible i would like to buy everything
made somewhere where
people are paid fairly right that's what we that's like what should be the
normal ethical exchange for
everything if you go to a restaurant you want to know that everyone's being
taken care of and paid
fairly you know you you go to buy a car from you guys you want to you want to
pay you for your work
it's like very it's a good exchange that's that's what i think i like to think
about and the thing
that bums me out is if you're buying something that you know is made by people
that are essentially
slaves yeah i mean the people working in fox what what options do they have
like what do they do is
is there an option to only work eight hours a day no like it's probably not it's
what it's probably
insane they're using young people to do it too it's all fucking sketchy

Will Gas Powered Vehicles Ever Be Outlawed?

the Joe Rogan experience do you think we're ever going to come to a time in
this country where internal combustion engines are outlawed I don't think so
man I really don't I think it's I think you're gonna see that like come full
circle just in my opinion Oh outlawed or gone away because well
California was outlawed as once for as well yeah it take California out of the
equation though I mean but that's what they're doing it's crazy you can't buy
new internal combustion engines after 2035 and I think this is like 20
something other states fixing to adopt it the same way because you can do it
without a vote yeah it's crazy they did it without a vote I don't think it
makes
sense I really don't I don't think there's enough minerals in the ground I
don't think they just the mining alone that would have to happen and the
reality
of what happens in that mining like people you need to understand what
they're talking about they're talking about batteries like this this idea that
batteries just come from ferries and that now all of a sudden you have this
like
zero carbon impact vehicle like that's nonsense that's complete total nonsense
you you're ignoring the entire supply process of what it takes to make that
what is with people that they don't they won't recognize that they don't want
to
recognize that some people didn't know about it until I had this guy on my
podcast said Darth Cara who wrote a book about it and he went to the Congo to
show these illegal mines like what they're doing
I mean it's not illegal there's no law right but they have children working in
these mines they have women working in these mines with babies on their back
and
they're they're they're mining toxic cobalt and this stuff is I mean there's no
protection there's no safety these people are like chipping the shit out of the
ground and that's a good percentage of all the cobalt that's involved in
electronics and batteries and cell phones and all the things that we need and
it's
not very publicized and it's it's this man exposed it and he risked his life to
do it
and he wrote a great book about it and the podcast was it was insane like
listening to
his story and how he risked his life to get this footage and you know and there
were
several times where there was men's guns and he got questioned and he had you
know a bunch
of people that were helping him but he got out of there eventually with this
reality that
everybody now is faced with it's like this is how they get the stuff that you
need to run
your cell phone like stop thinking that you know you have zero impact if you're
buying this
you're contributing to this we all are and we don't want to keep our fucking
heads buried in
the ground and pretend it's not happening yeah and to say that like everything
has to be electronic
like slow down like where is this coming from who's making it what who what
what are the conditions
like in the places where these people have to put your phone together what are
the conditions like
do you know foxconn has nets around the building because people were jumping
off what yeah where they
make iphones they they put nets around the building because so many people are
committing suicide
so instead the windows they're working constantly they work constantly they
sleep there they had beds
underneath their desks or their work areas it was sleep underneath work sleep
work show the photo of
the uh nets around foxhawk it's bun you just feel like some look at that oh jeez
their nets
all around the boys are listening it could be worse you know how wild that is
like if you're going to
jump off a building you can't do it here get out of here or if you do you
better have a good aim
man you're going to aim for where there's no net how do you explain that to
people like when you're
walking executives into the building we've had a huge bird problem we've had a
huge bird problem
how crazy that is you've had so many people commit suicide and your solution is
putting nets around the
building those people just go up to the top four fuck this bang i want it to be
over
just lock them like all the casinos do just lock the windows you gotta get to
the roof to do maintenance
there's just got to be like better representation of both sides so that people
understand well really
we should be making phones in america and they should be american made with
american wages where
people get health and dental and all the stuff you're supposed to get and you
have a living wage that's
what it's supposed to be and if your phone costs a little more to do that and
if i if apple makes a
little less that's how it's supposed to be you're not supposed to be using
slave labor to do stuff and
you know we don't have an ethical choice it's not like if you want to be a part
of today's society
you kind of have to have a smartphone if you're answering emails and doing
business it's way more
convenient to do that than not have one and there's not like this like very
obvious ethical choice like
hey this company only uses high paid labor everybody has insurance there's none
of that
if they only work x amount of hours a day there's none of that you you get
these things and they're
all manufactured overseas
if is it 2030 is the year is that what california's i think it's 2035 yeah if
if they were to do that
and say it was nationwide right and no new cars after 2020 2035 can be but they
don't touch i mean
obviously you're not gonna be able to do anything with it what's existing any
of the ice motors that
are out there that's gonna be like it's gonna be like judge dread yeah imagine
what the cost of like a
2020 f-150 would be worth then maybe more desirable or less desirable i mean
there's good i mean i would
assume that at least 50 something percent of the population is gonna be like
that i'm never going
that i'm gonna keep buying my yeah my gas motors right well the the thing that
always is going to be
an issue with uh cars is charging them it takes time right so you have to sit
there so if you're if
you're fully out of juice and you're on a cross-country trip how long does it
take when you go to those
supercharger stations to get you up to 100 again how long is that so a few
hours yeah longer than you
want to be sitting there yeah so damn sure with rising crime and having places
where you know
people are going to be stuck and no security especially in places like la good
luck with that oh yeah my
friend eddie was telling a story the other day about he almost got robbed at a
gas station and he realized
these guys were coming towards him and he got out just in time he's like you
know how you you've been
in your car so many times that you can just you know where everything is
instantly you don't have to
fumble he's as if that's what saved me that i just jumped in my car and i knew
how to and i was
just moving already crazy the guy was moving towards him dude that's a little
bit like the net scenario
though like what's the problem that we're not solving that like why the yeah
why are you afraid to go
sit there and charge your car at the gas station well you're gonna get robbed
for sitting there is
nobody looking at uh airline travel and the way planes are made with doing
anything away with
doing electric motors on that kind of shit
there's a concept really currently being developed for a solar power plane i
talked to a guy about it
like over a year ago and they were explaining it and they they have i think
they've done a bunch of
test flights and they're you know about and it's going to be able to go a long
way i just don't know
i don't know how that works you know i don't know like how much how much range
does it have how safe is
it like you know you don't want to be an early adopter not when you're in the
sky like flying
cars like you see flying cars like yeah i'm gonna sit that out yeah keep an eye
on it you know yeah
how many people are going to fly into power lines you know how many people are
going to fly into trees
and start forest fires i think that when they announced that in california wasn't
like the next
day they also had an announcement for people to stop charging their cars
because it was a week later
what a please don't charge that's the other thing it was too hot it maxed out
the grid if everybody
had an electric car the strain on the grid would be monumental i don't know if
most grids the way
they're set up right now would be able to handle that like if everybody had an
electric car wouldn't
that take like substantial upgrades to the grid yeah it's just infrastructure
joe we just do you just
like we just invest in infrastructure man i like how you're saying it like it
makes sense you're so
confident do you think they're worried about all of that stuff or they know
that it's impossible
that's why you push it out to it just looks really good on the ballot it does
look really good on the
ballot that's part of the problem this is a lot of people have these knee-jerk
reactions to like very
complex nuanced problems like the environment like i had mike baker on uh
yesterday and we we talked about
this and one of the things he's saying like the vast majority of the pollution
the carbon emissions in the
world is coming from china and india as the vast majority of it and they're not
going to change
they're not going to change what they do no matter what we do we're not going
to put a dent in what
they're doing and there's a bunch of people that think that the way to get us
out of this and the way
to mitigate climate change in terms of like human impact on it is actually to
build up poorer communities
and get them on electrical system get nuclear power to these places or so or
something and like elevate
their standard of life you'll have less pollution you'll have less you'll have
less pro you'll definitely
have less issues in terms of like health consequences the people that live
there and
in turn as they become more you know uh sustainable or they live a better life
their lifestyle is better
you'll have less pollution they just need it just people need to be incentivized
like they need to
have some sort of like there's places in the world that have no hope and they
just burn tires they don't
give a right right like they're not thinking about the environment they're
thinking about how do i get by
how do i stay alive i'm back to your point on making stuff here i'm what i don't
know the
numbers but i'm wondering what if you were to say in 10 years we're requiring
90 of every single
thing we use to be made in the usa right so you cut out all that air freight
and all that that freight
line all the shipping shipping is huge and everyone wants to talk about
providing jobs if we take if we
take all that what does that do for the carbon footprint if we're not shipping
all those freighters
yeah we're building here if you google that and granted this is just me like
looking at google
doing google research but look at what look at what a container ship uses in
fuel consumption it's
insane it's like the equivalent of like every single vehicle in the united
states like in it
annually like just back it seems like a huge dent you would put in it by us
making this here and
using it here that would be a big dent that would be massive there's i mean
that's obviously a long-term
project unfortunately manufacturing really kind of like got out of the united
states when they started
shipping and building cars overseas and ruined detroit i mean detroit just fell
apart that roger and me
movie did you guys ever see that never seen never heard of it you never heard
of it it's um what the
fuck's his name jamie michael moore michael moore that guy uh it's a great
documentary and it's about
flint michigan it's about um right after they closed all the plants down and
everybody just had nothing
they had nothing to do and just like the city collapsed and all that happened
because they wanted to make
shit cheaper yeah they wanted to pay people less and it's uh more profitable
for them to have uh you
kno