rev up your
engines well fiser if you don't remember
they made the Fisker ocean the electric
vehicle the company is now bankrupt
they're trying to get a court order to
allow them to sell the rest of their
fiskers for only
13,926 bucks a piece now you'd wonder
who's going to buy these stupid things
originally they averaged about 60,000
bucks a piece now that's a deal right
well this is B bankruptcy CT stuff right
a new york-based leasing company called
American lease they want to buy the
3,321 of these oceans that are left for
13,926 bucks a piece for a total of 46.2
five million bucks because there reason
want of money but the thing is the
Court's got okay it because you might
think oh 46.2 million that's a lot of
money right Fisker is over a billion
dollar in total debt to all its
unsecured creditors there was nothing
behind it's like loan sell me $10,000
with no security at all no no don't put
a lean in your house don't let me take
your car here here's $10,000 just pay me
back when you can you know so somehow
they suckered people to put in over a
billion dollars in unsecured money and
now they're trying to sell what's left
of their cars for 46.5 million well 46.5
million out of a billion dollars is a
literal spit in the bucket so who knows
if the court will approve it or not it's
not going to help these people people
that are owed a billion dollars around
3% of the money that's owed so that
would mean if you gave these clowns a
dollar you get three cents
back I'd be kind of peed too if I'd
invested the money and all I got was 3%
of my money back of what I invested
right you got to say even this company
they're willing to buy them for that low
price it's a leasing company right
they're hoping that they can lease these
things out and of course well you going
to get pirat who's going to fix them
when they break but if they're getting
them that dirt cheap if you figure out
what they're leasing for each year if
they got them and they leased them all
out and they didn't break down too much
they still make a good profit because Y
amorti how much it costs for buying a
car for that cheap price 13 Grand that
originally was $60 something, if most of
them still ran okay for a while they
could make money on a deal right but
whether the courts will say they can do
it or not hey if I was running it I'd
say you're only giving those people back
3% of your money go to Hades try selling
on eBay or something well there is gas
tax relief for millions of Americans
take Missouri people in Missouri can now
apply if they saved all their receipts
for gasoline for tax relief of the extra
gas tax that they put on gasoline right
you might think that's great if you have
your receipts from July 1st 2023 to June
30th 2024 you can apply for a rebate now
you might think oh phenomenal well get
this it's not worth your time even if if
you live in Missouri right because in
2022 the Missouri Department of Revenue
reported that the average refund
was
$27.8 now are you going to find all the
gas receipts fill it up hope the
government gives you money you got to
mail it to them that's going to cost you
a stamp so right there for 27 bucks no I
don't think most people are going to do
that that's not how the world works for
that tiny amount of money you're going
to get back is it worth the buy
no it isn't it's just yet another
government scam we're giving people back
their tax money yeah hardly anything and
they probably half of them probably be
lost in the mail and they wouldn't fill
it out and you got to spend all your
time filling out the form hey what are
you working for free or you working for
$27 how long will it take you to do this
probably hours and hours and then you
hope you get back $27 for the first half
of 2024 the Highlander sales have
plunged they plunged 47% so something up
there right well one of the reasons is
because now they have the grand
Highlander right well they're both
Highlanders but this is a grand
Highlander the grand Highlander is a
longer Highlander okay so they made it
bigger they've only sold 60,000
Highlanders this first half of 2024 but
they've sold almost the same 55,000
Grand Highlanders so you add it together
and they're actually not selling less
Highlanders there's Highlanders and
there's Grand Highlanders we're talking
about nitpicking here right in the first
first half of the year Toyota sold 1,1
19,000 Vehicles so they sold a lot of
vehicles and who really cares what the
stupid name is well it's not a
Highlander It's a grand Highlander oh
well they sold 50% less green ones this
year but the white sales were up it's
just stupid some of these figures so
overall Toyota sold 28% more SUVs 133%
more cars and that doesn't even include
the Lexus sales they have a
record-breaking first half of the year
so yeah take all these figures with a
grain of salt oh look the sales of
Highlanders are down 47% yeah but not
the grand Highlanders they're still
Highlanders right I mean some of these
media people they're looking for a story
anywhere oh look the sales of this are
down in terms of explicit technicalities
but in the real world doesn't mean
anything they're still Highlanders
Highlanders Grand Highlanders and they
sold over 100,000 of them in the first
half here we go it's a flying car it
even looks like a car this is the first
FA approved flying car it's called the
Model A Alf Aeronautics announced their
Model A and they said it's approved by
FAA for flying around right now it's
approved for a test run not that you can
buy it it isn't approved for the public
it's approv for a teston right now what
it actually got is called a special
airworthiness certification from the FAA
but it's also going to have to meet the
nhtsa specs too which it hasn't yet so
and it's even before they test still a
long way to go now it's another electric
vertical takeoff thing right it's
actually not really a car it's a joke
for that because they said it's maximum
speed is 25 M an hour on the ground well
I wouldn't call that a car maybe they
can call it a car but who's going to pay
whatever ridiculous sum they're going to
want for this thing when it can only go
25 miles hour on the ground it's got to
be approved by the national highway
traffic safety administration right is
it going to meet crash
specifications I rather doubt it right
it's going to be lightweight I can't see
it meeting crash back and it's only
allowed to go 25 M hour you couldn't
legally allow that on roads if you ask
me if it goes that slow you can't be
driving 25 M hour on the road you be
going tooo slow right so it had another
example of oh look flying cars flying
cars they'll be here soon yeah they said
that in the 6s they're still not here
not real ones at any stretch of the
imagination yeah the FAA approved oh you
can test it but even the nhts they says
you can't try them yet until we approve
it so they can't even approve them for
testing yet so don't hold your breath on
any real flying cars even if they made
this thing it only goes 25 mil hour it's
not really a car it's a joke then well
you're not tell how damn products are
crap well here's an email from a viewer
and he's certainly in a crapper with his
Cadillac right Daddo doc says Scotty I
recently bought a 2018 Cadillac ct6 with
24,000 Mi I started to get slipping and
hard shifting when doing a rolling stop
and almost feels like it's dropping a
gear I complained about it at the
Cadillac deal and they said that's a
feature of the 8speed GM Transmissions
they said it wasn't ruining a
transmission my response was so you're
really trying to tell me GM provided a
feature that only works for the first 10
to 15 minutes your drive then goes away
not to mention a feature that almost
gives you whiplash I could tell the
service manager was being put on a spot
it was almost like wink wink he knows
it's BS but it's what they're told to
state of the customers dealing with the
issue well I'm not sure what else to do
than let it break since I have a
lifetime drive time warranty let them
replace the whole thing hope that they
cover yeah lifetime drivetrain right
well we're sorry but the seal went out
in the transmission and seals aren't
including the warranty I have had that
happen with customers right the engine
and transmission are covered but not the
seals in the engine and Transmissions
right so the seals go bad then well you
got to pay for it cuz the seal went bad
and it was R the warranties especially
general motor warranties generally
aren't worth the paper they are printed
on realize that you should have never
bought that Cadillac I tell people don't
buy them they're piles of crap right you
bought one and you're stuck with it and
you do have the warranty but good luck
cuz if it's doing what yours is doing
it's going to break eventually right and
they'll probably come up some
hairbrained excuse or they'll say Well
when they all get that mileage that's
normal they don't move down the road
then they're just a big away but that's
what they're made for Well everybody's
talking about Fusion reactors to have
Limitless electricity from nuclear
fusion right well it's a long way in the
future now looks like we're going to
have to wait a little bit longer for the
world's biggest Fusion reactor here's a
picture of what it's supposed to look
like well guess what not only is the
cost of this thing four times the
initial estimates it's going to be over
$22 billion the start of D trinium
tricium operation will be delayed from
2035 to
2039 okay it's 2024 now they're saying
well we're delaying this 15 years in the
future which we all know what that means
50 years in the future probably if it
even ever works this stuff is so
theoretical the money that they're
throwing into it hey it may be totally
Wast it I met scientists who told me
they don't think they'll ever have
nuclear fusion as a viable way to
generate electricity for experiments and
stuff yeah great but for actually
generating power the energy that has to
be created the high millions of degrees
temperatures how you going to hold it
then now people have done studies with
the smaller ones they made inside
there's all kinds of corrosion inside
the things already and they've hardly
used them at all but to talk about oh
yeah it's just around the corner now
they're saying well it's delay now to
2039 that's 15 years from now and this
is the beginning of it right hooking
them up making them run not that they're
actually being used anywhere for power
and this is their best case scenarios
these are the guys that said oh well
it'll be 2035 no now it'll be 2039 the
next thing it be 2045 it'll just keep
going on and on and
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