Casey Putsch
Appearances
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
That was back in 2015, I think.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
That was a big scandal, which is interesting because in looking back on it now, it seems to tie into more with, not regulating a car company so much for the betterment of all, but an attack. It's the way it kind of looks like to me. An attack on Volkswagen. I would say diesel. Because Volkswagen was in, I don't know about now, but certainly was the best and most efficient.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
The engine I used was from back in like 2000 when they made it. Volkswagen. Yeah, good engine. And it's manual, more efficient that way. The transmissions manual? Yeah, manual. Less parasitic losses. Really? It's cheaper to produce, gets better miles to the gallon. And, you know, back in the day, sports cars, if they were manual, would have better zero to 60 times and such. No longer true.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, no longer true. Our automatics have gotten a lot more interesting and whatnot.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, because there's less parasitic drag. There's less losses in the drivetrain.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Like meaningfully more efficient? Well, especially in that time in the 2000s, probably could be five to seven miles to gallon on the highway. Oh, wow. Maybe even maybe only like three, but it's still a lot when you consider millions of cars over years. For sure.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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?
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And it doesn't all have to just be about like, oh, we have to do this for the sake of environment. These are costs that hit people's pockets.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It's the basic stuff that diesel would have. I mean, you've got a pretty serious catalytic converter. You've got the exhaust gas regulation and such. And without getting into overly nitty gritty, diesel does have some things about it that The EPA likes to go after. But it's kind of strange, and I'm curious to see what happens in the future. So you probably – I'm sure you saw this.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
The Supreme Court ruled differently on the Chevron deference. Of course. Which I'm really fascinated to see how that changes the nature of the way laws are interpreted.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Right, on how it's interpreted.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
That's probably the reason why so many of my friends complain about the ATF. I think they're pretty good at making laws.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
No, exactly right. Exactly right. And, you know, it's not looking for, you know, a way around something or a loophole. But like, what is right? Like, what are we actually doing here?
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And that affects things greatly. Because when you overregulate things, it just makes it difficult to innovate or go anywhere. Right. You know, and the thing of it is, so going back to the car, the car I built, so I mentioned to you, got 104.72 miles to go. And I video recorded the whole thing because I want to know, what does this thing actually do? Because last year was a very important year.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It was an election year. Um, one thing that also drove me nuts. So if you look at, so the Biden administration and even Gavin Newsom's pushing electric vehicle mandates, like large electric vehicle mandates, not like back to the Clinton era when it was like, I don't know, one to 2% of vehicles sold by certain times need to be electric. No, they're big ones.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And I had a huge problem with, you know, Biden's administration doing that because I'm like, this destroys innovation. And the other thing you go into, and I don't want to beat up on electric because it has its purpose in places. I think all kinds of drive trains and energy do. I don't mean that as just like political BS rhetoric. I mean that genuinely, but it's not a Band-Aid fix.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, so how are we going to charge them? Our grid? Yeah, how? I'll tell you this. So I did some math with all this. Let me tell you this. So the next day, I'm coming right back to this point on the math. The next day after I did the initial mile per gallon testing on my car, I did zero to 60 times with it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So I put accelerometers and GPS in this car, also my 93 Dodge Viper RT10, C7 Corvette Grand Sport, and my neighbor's Tesla Model 3 rear wheel drive with the full charge. My car, the 104 miles per gallon, beat the Dodge Viper by two-tenths of a second and exactly matched the Corvette Grand Sport and the Tesla. Damn. That's without like computerized traction control. That's me just driving it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And I probably could have done better. But honestly, the tires are over a decade old now because I built the car a while ago and such. But that was real world driving. And yeah, I gave it. And I got videos of it if you want to look me up. How did you beat the Tesla? It matched the Tesla. But that was only with the Tesla to full charge.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It would consistently get a little slower every time as it would lose juice.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And the Tesla is simple. You just stick your foot down and that's the best it's going to do. My car would actually probably beat it if I gave it some clever traction control and such in it, to be honest. But that's not the point. The point of it is, so I'm like, I'm going to run some numbers. Just out of curiosity, what is the carbon footprint of burning one gallon of diesel? Oh, interesting.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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?
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Okay. EPA has got numbers for that. Okay. What's the carbon footprint on average, the United States electrical generation, whether it's nuclear and coal, whatever, national average of the carbon footprint of a kilowatt hour of electricity? Say like you're in a perfect world charging your electric vehicle at home.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And then I just did the basic math on, okay, what's the carbon footprint of my car on diesel getting over a hundred miles a gallon versus the electric car charged at home, national average over a hundred miles. My car beat the electric car. At a lower carbon footprint. And it has a much lower one to manufacture, and it's easier to fix. So that's when I went, okay. I also did some other fun math.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You're not. I'm just going to stay that way.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, thank you for bringing that up. That's very important because the other thing about... That's why I drive a 1987. Well done, sir. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, good, good.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I get too excited on this. But it's true. You remember the days of school, like you could have a gun rack because people were... reasonable human beings.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
We had surfboards. But she could still. Yeah, exactly. But now you can still do it. I kind of I kind of get my independent spirit. I'm like, I'm going to put a gun rack in my Viper. Not because I need it. Just because. Yeah. You know, I totally agree. But, and that's the other thing about the electric car.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So when I look at it, all the governmental control and what it appears to me globally is going on with much of that and the push. And then the other thing that doesn't make any sense. So the Biden administration doing the big electric vehicle mandates and such and push, but excluding Tesla from their meetings at the White House and summit and all that. Really?
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So what you're telling me is the thing that you want to do with industry and cars and transportation is super important, but not as important as the politics with the guy with the biggest electric car company in the world? I don't like that either. Well, they're just criminals.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I know. I think a lot of my grandmother, who married my World War II vet granddad, of course, she always said, give him a fair trial and hang him in the morning. And that phrase has been ringing in my mind a lot.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah. And we have the infrastructure for it. Well, yeah. You can fill it up at a gas station. I only put a five-gallon tank in it. Because at 100 miles a gallon, like I'm going to need to get out and, you know, have the call of nature or stop at a gas station before. But if I put a bigger gas tank on, I can drive from New York to L.A. On one tank? Yeah, of course. Okay.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Now, I have to point this out because there's lots of smart people watching. They'll get it. Okay. Things like crash testing, airbags, climate control, that jazz. Okay, great. It'll add a few hundred pounds more to it. Maybe it'll make the car a little bit better. But the other thing that happens when you actually develop and build something like that, you tune it better.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I still can get those numbers and meet all of those same requirements.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, it's 2025 and we live in a wonderful country, but one that has evolved into a lot of industrial complexes and they don't like change.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It's power. That's power and control and money, and they can do it, and they will. Which, I have to say one thing, which I think you may appreciate. AI effectively is a synthetic god that we're creating. Oh, of course. How much of a biblical warning disaster is that? Oh, you don't have to dig too deep to be. We're destroying the entirety of the human experience. I just wanted to say that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Apex of the golden calf.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Like, what am I going to do? Just build a few little ones here? No, I got it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It's pretty cool. Can you describe it? Give me a word picture. I'm trying to think of something that quite looks like it. It's slippery. It looks like a cross between an exotic car and a little bit of a Bonneville Salt Flats car.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
No.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Oh. Rather than just interesting for aesthetic's sake.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Too many angles for me. Oh, no, I was talking about my car, not the Cybertruck.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I'm obsessed. No, the Cybertruck, the best meme is there's a DeLorean and an F-117 Nighthawk, right? Yeah. And F-117's like the military guy and the DeLorean's kind of like the mom. And the Nighthawk's like, what do you mean he's my son? He doesn't look anything like me. And they show the Cybertruck and he's like, oh.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I have a 31 Buick Phaeton.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So anyway, I keep interrupting you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Okay. So the engine's within the wheelbase but behind the cockpit. It's two-seat. It has butterfly doors similar to like a McLaren F1 in that regard. It was efficient. It has something of an open tail because it was very important the way the air flows around it but also underneath it so that I can make it highly efficient.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So, you know, the bottom of the, it's a monocoque structure where it's not like a tube frame with a body stuck on it. The whole car is itself the structure as well.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So the air, the way it flows over it through the radiator in the back, also to the heating of the motor and the way that then intersects the trailing edge and the way the air flows around it, it's just all designed to be design efficient. Sounds amazing. And you can even use the structure of the chassis or the structure.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So I can even make the stereo system very small and effective and efficient because naturally, acoustically, it works out well for that too. So it's a lot of fun with design. I just... Every once in a while, you need somebody who looks around at the world and goes, this is wrong. We can do better. I can do better. I'm going to do better. And that's just... So you built this thing.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah. It's registered no different than like an assembled vehicle or kit car. There's a lot of ways that are a modified vehicle. It's just like make car I made.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
What do people say when you drive it around? I keep it relatively under wraps because respectfully for as much time as it took me to build and what it represents, I consider it kind of valuable to trust out there in the wild with people on their cell phones and stuff. Yeah. So I kind of go with a low profile, but people are definitely interested and enamored by it when they see it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Correct. And that was the other interesting thing. So nobody reported on it, even though, you know, I got a few hundred thousand views on it when I said everything I wanted to say and show it and it did the numbers, right?
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I would think if somebody builds a diesel car that represents being affordable and recyclable mass produce that gets great fuel efficiency and has a low carbon impact and all people would be into that. Well, one word I got back from an automotive media was telling. They said, we don't report on dirty diesel. And the other was diesel's dead. And I thought about that. And I go, hang on.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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...
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Diesel's like one of the most used fuels there are. Wait, who wrote that? It was said. It wasn't written. It was said to us privately. These are like professional car reviewers?
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
They won't touch it. They won't write about it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
There are certain personality types. And I see the worst ones as kind of like we talk about like the dark triad personality traits, which is like, you know, psychopathy and Machiavellianism and narcissism, et cetera. You know, these kinds. I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for this. No, I love it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
No, I've been around. So in the normal car world, sports cars and such. I'm gonna get in trouble. I love exotic cars. I really do. Okay, like when I was a kid, my dad showed me the movies Grand Prix with James Gardner and Le Mans with Steve McQueen. Please tell me you've seen at least one of these movies, right? I don't know. Okay, well, watch Le Mans with Steve McQueen.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Just getting a good vibe as Steve McQueen being himself and just Le Mans on straight in Le Mans, early 70s, Porsche flat 12 against a Ferrari V12, just singing it. And like, as a kid, I'm like, I want that. You know what I mean? So I love exotic cars because for me, something like a V12 Lamborghini is like, yes, I can't be Steve McQueen at Le Mans, but I can drive this. You know what I mean? Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But nowadays they're paddle shifted and anybody that wants to flex can buy them. So if somebody ever said to me, hey, Casey, I need you to find me the most narcissistic sociopath possible. I'm like, no problem. Let's find the most Lamborghinis. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Oh, no, we're going similar ways.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
They have a purpose, but they're not a solution for everything. But the political push and powers are trying to make it a solution for everything. And I look at this and go, no, no, no, no. This isn't about what's best for everybody or even the environment or anything. This is money from one pocket to another and a power play.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I live in the greater Toledo area, and that's baby Detroit.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So... The, it's kind of a, it's a deeper discussion that led to when I built what I called the Omega car, which I built that high efficiency diesel car that I thought would be more recyclable, lower environment impact, affordable, and a good car and a direction to go. And if I may, can I just back up a second kind of what I saw? I hope you will.
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The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So, you know, my teens and 20s, I'm just a normal car guy. I liked fast cars and going on dates with pretty girls. That's pretty much all I cared about. So fast cars and fast women. Well, they say in Kentucky, what is it? They say beautiful horses and fast women. No, I meant beautiful women and fast horses. Something like that. But, no, that was kind of all I cared about.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, it's how you scale it, right? So, in my thinking, if you do a crowdfunding type of thing, it's very grassroots, respectfully. Yeah. And I would have to go a different direction with the car where they'd kind of almost be like self-assembled prototype type things. And that's cool.
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But honestly, the thing I kind of worry about doing that, starting a small scale versus something else, is that I don't want to do something in a sense too good to where they try to change the laws and ruin the ability for people to build their own cars. I know that sounds a little kooky.
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But the other thing is if you think of like private equity guys and such, typically they want a faster return on such. And the problem is when you're thinking of something that frankly upsets an industry and relates to the automotive industry, how do you integrate it? Can you use the processes to make smaller parts that can be profitable in industry? Do you start smaller like that?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Do you want to do all big scale and create a car company from the ground up? Because that's no small task, monetarily speaking. No, it's not. And there's only so many idealistic rogue billionaires in the world, you know, and that's generally what it takes unless you have a government that wants to make something happen.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You have a point, but you've got to scale that to a point that works, because there's a big difference between doing something in a small manufacturing to mass production.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, Elon's first car with Tesla, the Roadster, was a Lotus Elise chassis with a different body and electrified. And the guys that I knew who had those originally were rich guys. They had Ferraris and Lamborghinis, and that was their cool toy to start with. What's this car called, by the way? The Tesla Roadster, the original one. Oh, mine, the Omega car, I called it.
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Yeah.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Oh, yeah.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, why not?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Can you ship them? You can. You can. We'd have to talk if you want to prototype something, though. Maybe we'll make something special.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Hold your fly rods. Yeah, for real. If you can't use it, what good is it, you know?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah. My happiness is way too wrapped up in the ability to just drive my own car. Yeah, I love... Whether anybody's around or not, I don't care. Just let me drive my own car. But you, like, wrenched on them, too. Yeah, it's rewarding. I don't necessarily want to do it all the time. No, no. It's awful. I try to... My hands have healed up enough I won't bleed on my white shirt today. That's nice.
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Yeah. Yeah, no longer.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But my grandfather always talked about politics and things going on in the world. And while I didn't really care so much to look into it, things stuck with me. And I remember in, was it 2008 when Obama was running? People are all excited. I'm like, okay. And I remember watching all the presidential stuff.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
The first problem with new cars is you lose money hand over fist to depreciation. And then if you have to take out a loan for it, you're also paying interest on that. Yes. And one of the fastest ways I see normal people in general lose money is on new cars. Yeah. And they do it because they're afraid they can't work on it or service it. That's exactly right.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
That's basically the only real difference. That's exactly right. But then you get dealerships that just find new ways to not do their warranty work because that's where they make a lot of money. And that's a separate thing.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So a new car, I mean, that's nice if you can afford it, but rather than buying a new $100,000 truck or SUV, I'd rather buy this nice used one for, I don't know, 15 or 20 and spend the rest of the money. I'll go, you know, if you got it, go buy a Benninger Ferrari or a muscle car, something cool, you know, at least keep your money, have some fun. But it's more than that.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Cars, I would say in the last 20 to 25 years, The evolution is not for the sake of the car and the person and so much of the experience. It's more for the sake of the nature of dealing with regulation and keeping a profit margin and building it. And when you do that, you make things that are inherently more prone to failing in the future and less serviceable.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And that's not good for ownership and our actual lifespan.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It's just metered and more complicated.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
They wanted all your data to provide it to insurance companies to wreck your life, I'm sure. Is that true? Okay, insurance companies will be the downfall of cars and driving. I guarantee it. And the other thing is all the cameras that are out there, everybody's putting cameras on their car. I'm like, okay, you guys. Cameras on their car? Well, I'm sure you've seen it.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Like people are buying little cameras to see what happens. If somebody does something stupid on the road, you can use that to protect yourself legally, right? That's why they sell it. It's never occurred to me, but yes. Okay. What happens when those are mandated in every car everywhere? What happens when you're completely mandated control?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
That was kind of the first time I really started paying attention to politics when I was a younger guy. Yeah. And we're watching the Democratic National Convention and Obama's talking. And I remember thinking, this guy's full of crap. That's just my gut feeling. I didn't know where it came from. I didn't really know that much of politics, but I'm just like, this guy is full of crap.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Car shuts off at exactly 55 mile an hour speed limit, no matter what. It's just another method of slippery slope of control. And it'll come from insurance companies.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Oh, that's a good question because I don't mess around with those cars very often or ever. But if you, is it fair to say- Ones that are connected to the internet or a satellite in some way.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You know, OnStar kind of came about with your mirror and I don't really know much about it, but that was kind of the first, I think, mainstream way when we saw cars were being specifically connected to something beyond yourself. So would you say pre-9-11 cars are not- They're a lot safer in terms of that. The other thing too, in the early 2000s, a system called hand bus system came out.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It was to make wiring more efficient. You theoretically have less wires, but everything is tied together through almost like a spinal cord of the computer and it has to speak to each other. And that was something else that's kind of a beginning of the end and being serviceable in the future and not creating cars with a lot of glitches.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
We already do. The other thing is a couple of small points that are also happening were the right to repair your own private property is under attack. That's for farmers. What does that mean? Well, I think there was a big thing going on with John Deere tractors where farmers couldn't service their vehicles.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
They have to take them to the dealership and have to plug in with a computer that only the dealership has through the company. And forgive me if I got this wrong. I think it was John Deere. But that's something that's happening everywhere. Because if manufacturers or dealerships want more money, well, they want you to service with them.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
If they make it so you can only service with them no matter what, well, then they're going to... in an authoritarian way, force you to let them make the money, which is frankly another method of control.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And when you start adding all of those things up, you just keep taking away all the power for the people before eventually you get to a point where you will even be able to own your own car anymore. And will you driving it be a liability to where if we have self-driving cars, it just takes you there at the most efficient time that whatever the it wants you to, I want you to.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, it's where that's going.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You didn't think he was Black Jesus?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I don't care.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I mean, like, pop the jugs off, okay, but... I mean, maybe, like, you might have a little, like, copper O-ring or aluminum O-ring or something on the drain plug, but, like... Well, of course, you always have... Is this one of those crazy modern manufacturing thing where you have to disassemble half the engine?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, it just triggers something kind of in your back.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Something's wrong here. Yeah. Well, and I don't say those things in a, like, kooky conspiratorial type of way, but it's literally where we're going. And, you know, when I see things like that, and I mentioned about it'll be insurance companies that ruin it for everybody. Because the other thing is, what happens when they start making it where you can't drive your older cars anymore? Yeah.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So I just thought he's full of crap. And so I'm listening, get to the point. And he goes, and I'll help Detroit retool. So the energy efficient cars of tomorrow will build here for the sake of the nation and world. I'm like, bullshit. You're not gonna, this isn't, you're not doing a Kennedy speech. Like we're going to the moon for the decade is out. You're not going to do it.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
No, if an industry is no longer about innovation and it's so big that it can't fail and it's pushed to go a certain way, well, then the best way to ensure that it succeeds is force you to buy something new, even if it's not in your own best interest.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I don't know about that so much. It's specialized, but they're simple. You can look at it and know the basic principles that are going on. It's the newer stuff that's crazy. For instance, my father-in-law... recently got my mother-in-law this nice newer SUV. I think it's a BMW. I think it's a hybrid SUV. She likes it.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And my father and I look at it and go by and we're like, there's a lot of servos and things whirring and buzzing. And I don't want to say it, but I guess I'm saying it now. It's kind of like, when is this thing going to break and how much is that going to cost? And no, you're not going to reasonably fix that.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I just, I just, it just, it ticked me off and I've remembered it to this day. And of course we have the, why did you know he was not going to do it? Because Detroit's not going to change. She's not going to change that. Like a politician changes their own oil, let alone know how a car works or the industry or what to do with it. Fair. Respectfully. Fair, fair. No, with no respect, I would say.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And then when that thing is older, that all these highly specialized little mechanisms and circuit boards and servos or whatever go bad, who's making that? And is it worth making it anymore? Or is it just another giant, complicated, toxic, wasteful thing that we go on in this vicious consumer cycle? No, they just crush it. Well, some older cars you can still fix.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It's a goofy story maybe, but for $8,000, I bought a 1996 Rolls-Royce off Facebook Marketplace kind of as a joke. I'm like, I don't know. This might be kind of cool. I love the car. And I ended up fixing it up for almost nothing. And I got a car that in 1996. Did it run? Yeah. It's a great car. Taking over family trips and all in it. I didn't have to do that much. Yeah.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It was like $170,000, $80,000 in the 90s. But where I'm going with it is. That's the way you roll. Hey, look, I may not be wealthy, but like I can live well if you got a toolbox and some know-how and you think for yourself, you know. But where I was going with it is that car is fixable.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
the way it's constructed what kind of engine does it have it's got a v8 it's all aluminum naturally aspirated v8 the transmission's general motors based so when i needed stuff to fix it i just got it locally it was no big deal and sure there's some things that are old rolls royce on it but it's built differently it's built to where you can actually repair the part not just be a parts changing type of mechanic like modern things and people get into technology for technology's sake nowadays
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But it's the philosophy of design that goes behind it. We're locked in this consumer, industrialized, only new is better, more complicated, more expensive, more regulated, when the mentality and the know-how, should we say, of the first half of the 20th century, we built things that could actually be repaired. We build things that can be serviceable, that can last to an extent.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So why are we not still using good design and engineering mindsets and technology, you know, direction with modernity in a way that's actually useful for people and communities and a nation and rather than just an industry?
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It's a brand new house. And they painted it black. Normally that would have meant in Europe, you got the black pill, like don't come here. Yeah. Back in the day, right? Like if you're in Amsterdam. A black house? Like what? Amsterdam.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
No, you know, and I can think of some, you know, military leaders and such saying things that I'll be a little kinder about. We don't want to take advice from, you know. Pants suits in Washington. It's like, what do they know about it? Respectfully. But things like that go across the board. So I'm thinking, he's not doing anything.
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Actually, I went in college and went to Ohio State, third generation there. And originally I was going in for automotive design or product design. I really should have gone into engineering. That's my forte. But where I'm going with this is it's housed within fine art. In colleges. Yeah. And I generally dislike modern art, okay? You think?
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I think that if you don't have the technical skill to do something actually beautiful, then I don't care about your hoo-hoo abstract ideas, right? But where I'm going with this is... So-called art and design and product design has been influenced over the 20th century going back to like the Frankfurt School in Europe, which frankly was a lot of communist mindset that infiltrated the art world.
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And it's made... Well, sure.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I... Ended up hating my experience there. I ended up quitting after like a year and a half and designing my own major just to get the hell out of school because I was kind of pissed off actually because there was one specifically I remember in this one class we get to design something for the whole semester, right? And we're going to design a bathroom scale. I'm like, okay. I thought about it.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I'm like, this sucks. With the way they're teaching us to have an aesthetic, do the simplest thing possible, which is somewhat communistic in a way, you know. It seems almost solely— That's the imperative?
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The simplest, most boring thing possible. I'm like, what is the point? Let's just have a white room with one wassily chair in the back of it. We'll just sit there and hate our lives. Like, anything beautiful, anything classic— They shied away from design, literally pushed away. What about natural? Natural beauty? That's not their thing.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Strangely. But in regard to the story I have to tell you, so the bathroom scale, I thought to myself- this is going to take a semester. It doesn't even have to function. And if they just want to make the simplest thing possible, okay, here, here's a round piece of glass with an LCD display on it that tells you to go eat a salad. Like, well, I don't want to do this.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And so I met with the academic advisor and I said, I will meet all of your academic requirements for this class, but please let me design something at my level right now. Let me design a car. And they said, no. They would not let me design anything.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, the other thing that interesting happened was the financial crisis, 2008, 2009, right? Now, I didn't fully understand what was going on with that. Again, I cared more about going on dates and fast cars than politics and things going on at the time. But the family business we had was a small town public golf course in the Midwest. You know, 18 holes, worked our butt off.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, sadly. And that's a problem in the American educational system. You know, libraries are free. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of nice people out there that can help you learn. But... So, I stayed around in that program for another semester. I didn't do anything the whole semester. The night before the exam and presentation, I just Ferris Bueller'd a bunch of stuff together and ran around.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I don't know, got a B+. And I just designed cars and things on my own. But how insane is that, that in college, when you're actually paying to be there, and it's supposed to be design and product design, that they won't actually let students... do what they're capable of doing or push a boundary or go anywhere. They literally keep a thumb on you like that. I quit the program after that.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And I stopped caring. Fortunately, when I was in high school, and hopefully people have teachers that actually care, that matter. I had art teachers that made the world of difference for me and a lot of other people. That was huge. And people write things off now in pre-college, things like shop, home ec, vocational, art, engineering, drawing.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Those are some of the most important things you can possibly have. But we got rid of all of those things to push college prep.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You mean the things that actually make you a contributing, functioning individual member of society?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, that go into an academic vacuum that's not the real world that's fueled by loans you can't default on, whether there's going to be a job for you or not.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I think and look around. I don't like liars. I don't like being lied to. And that goes culturally, too.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, I could do that. You have to think about the structure of who wants to do what. You know, early adopters are usually people that can afford something. It's going to cost more than 20 grand when you're building something. But certainly that can be done. I could make lower production numbers and you could build something and a bit of a movement too from the ground up.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And the other thing is, I like to do amateur race driving and vintage racing, so I like to make cars that are fast. And for me, it's kind of fun, the idea to make things that get over 100 miles a gallon that beat Dodge Vipers and Corvettes and Teslas. You know, that's what we did back with muscle cars.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
My father worked seven days a week, six o'clock in the morning, 10 o'clock at night, every day. throughout the entire of the season. So we worked. I know like being in a small town, everybody makes fun of you. Oh, you're rich. You just sit on the golf course all day.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I'm shockingly easy to find. You are. Perhaps a little scary. So maybe find a nice method rather than I just look out the window one day and go, ugh. So you're not giving your home address?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Of course I'm open to doing things. I mean, you know... I have a nice enough life. I have a wife. I have a cute daughter, a nice neighborhood and neighbors and toys to play with. But there's more to life than that. Can you find men to work for you?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Heck, I've been mentoring college students for the last decade plus. I can call up half of them.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
No, they're not dead. And they're vastly important right now.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, even if there's something that I don't know, I'm going to find it. Yes. Like you make it happen. But, you know, one man can't do everything by themselves. You know, if you're building something and nobody wants it, well, that's a problem. You need to build something somebody wants.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And if it requires a team of people coming together, whether that's with talents or resources or finances to do it, then you find a way.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It depends on how you do it. It is a game. And to be honest, when I look at the car and what I've done with that or with the educational nonprofit or anything else in life, I look at how do I have the biggest positive impact I possibly can? And right now, the biggest impact with regard to the car is talking about it. So people do know what's possible.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I'm like, no, we're changing oil in like diesel tractors and back lapping mowers and mowing and putting on banquets and doing family business, right? What does it mean to back lap a mower? Oh, sorry. That was, so if you mow a fairway or a green, it's not a rotary blade that cuts by kind of like whacking the, it's actually, it's a reel which comes through and slices on a blade. Yes.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So hopefully maybe they kind of, you know, wake up for a second from the cell phone, look around and think. That's a vastly important thing to do. So I think it has tremendous value there. But, you know, I want to build something. You know, I'm an America first kind of guy. Like, why in the heck are we not building these things here? Why? We should. You know, I'll give you an example.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I've been around the sun, I don't know, 43 times in my life, right? When I was younger and we were working the little town golf course, that's a family business. And a lot of the guys that golf at our golf course were blue collar. Everybody there's largely working class, old World War II vets, that sort of thing, right? Yeah. It's Toledo. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that was even Tiffin.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But the point I'm making is, or if I'm like riding a motorcycle around Toledo or something, I'm like, nothing's changed. Nothing's changed in the last 50 years. There's people out here. They want to work. They want a job. They want a community. But what's going on out there in the world that doesn't allow people to have that anymore? And that's what frankly ticks me off.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And usually I get ticked off and then I think and plan and do something.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Well, they get, they get dull. And so you have to sharpen them and it's dirty and you beat up your knuckles. And that's kind of the work you actually do in the winter with the golf course. By hand, like with a file or? Oh, no. You have to run them backwards with a dirty compound with like grit on it and you have to adjust it. Oh, you lap it like you lap a valve. Yeah, you lap it. Exactly. Exactly.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Thank you. Sorry to interrupt. No, it's all right. I just kind of bring that up because that was my world at the time. We worked hard and we saw that. But at that time, I started to see how it was affecting people in Little Tiffin, Ohio on a daily basis. Loans, housing loans, business loans. And I also saw how that affected eventually when the family was thinking of selling the business.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You couldn't get lending for something like that. And I started to see how that hurt everything. But where I was going with it in relation to the overarching things with the automotive industry. So now we're bailing out the automotive industry? Tax dollars? Huge amounts of money? Okay. Huh. Paying attention. And I'd lived in Columbus, Ohio at the time.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Headed my little shop working on vintage race cars and things like that. And riding my motorcycle around. And after we were bailing out the automotive industries, I kind of remember back and I'm like, so I wonder, is Obama going to try to make everything efficient now? Are they going to do anything?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And I see us, we just kind of doubled down on making bigger trucks and muscle cars and things, which I have to tell you, I love big trucks and muscle cars and fast cars, okay? Like, if you can afford the fuel and do what you want, don't get in my way. You can pry my sports cars out of my cold, dead hands, okay? Don't.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But, you know, doesn't mean I don't necessarily want something that could be better for as a daily driver. I can't think of something that might be more efficient. So I was noticing that, and I'm thinking, this is wrong. Something's wrong here.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And just in what I was doing and researching various materials and thinking of building cars, and it's kind of what I do, I started to realize there's a myriad of ways that we can mass-produce cars, automobiles, that will be less toxic, less environmental impact, cheaper, more efficient than what we're doing. Because in a sense, all of our cars are stamped metal boxes with chairs bolted in them.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
We've been doing this since the mid-1930s. We have. Not much has changed. And it's been a long time. And I'll say this also, which I think you might enjoy as a history guy. So SR-71 Blackbird, right? CIA spy plane, Mark III. They came up with that in the late 1950s.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
We had to go to the trouble of getting all the titanium, I think, from Russia at the time, which required a zillion shell companies and orchestration just to get the material to build it. And we built an aircraft effectively in the late 1950s, 1960, that'll do Mach 3 and can map hundreds of thousands of miles of the Earth's surface.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And before GPS existed, be able to plot the stars through broad daylight and through clouds in the late 50s. And we're still making cars like the 1930s.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
We haven't. And to be fair, there's a lot of things that we still, like the B-52 bomber, it's still around. Buff is eternal, they joke, you know? And so there's a lot of great designs from back when that are still perfect designs now and can be upgraded. It doesn't mean that we have to have innovation for innovation's sake. Some things just work. But sometimes you need new things.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
But as a younger guy at the time, I was frustrated by all this. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to build a car. I got a point to prove. Yeah. And my thinking at the time was it can't be electric because nobody knows what the heck a kilowatt hour is back then. We're not accustomed to thinking like that. We think miles per gallon. How fast is it? Zero to 60. You know, things like that.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
That's kind of the two things that matter most to people. And can you use this? And how much does it cost? So it's like, okay. I want to build a car that'll be representative of something that can be mass produced that let's say it would cost about $20,000 or less. I made it diesel, turbo diesel.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So I looked around for what I felt was about the most efficient engine reasonably available and built the car. Now I said something like 11 years ago on video so I can prove it. I said, it will get over a hundred miles a gallon and it will do zero to 60 in under five seconds. Now, I built the car.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I even showed it at a private-like car event with sports cars and exotic cars and told everybody about my concept. But when I got it all together and done, I realized I don't have a voice. Like, what am I going to do with this thing? If the world doesn't know it exists and nobody hears about it, it doesn't exist. You felt like Nikolai Tesla at this point, I'm sure. Perhaps. I don't, maybe.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You know, he's an interesting character.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Certainly. And I sat on it. I just put it in my garage for the better part of a decade. because I didn't have a voice. But other things going on in life, I was doing my nonprofit Genius Garage, which I really believed in, because we can go into some big problems in American educational system, especially higher education. I think we're stymieing our youth to families in the future.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And I think it comes from predatory lending and loans you can't default on. And I think the schools are creating this vacuum monster that is not the real world with majors that are not providing jobs and creating an environment for political radicalization. But that's another topic.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
So I don't know what you drove here in, but let's pick your average car or SUV. Yeah, yeah. Put it in neutral. How hard is it to push it? Pretty hard. Pretty hard, right? Yeah. Like, I know it sounds silly, but when you work on cars, if you spend your day pushing around cars, you start thinking about how efficient they are. Look at a car and it should be going down the road or a semi.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
How aerodynamic do you think that is?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
There's nothing about our cars that are remotely efficient at all. So how do you get that? You just make the actual car, not so much the drive train. You're not looking for a magic bullet. Everybody wants a magic bullet. You make the car more efficient. Lower coefficient of drag, somewhat lighter weight where you don't need weight, just less rolling resistance.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
You make it actual efficient, good design. We don't do that with the automotive industry anymore. And the reason I chose diesel is because people would understand that. Diesel is also a very flexible fuel. We can make biodiesel. You can make diesel effectively out of what's left over from the meatpacking industry, the winemaking industry, agriculture, you name it.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
And this is fascinating, too, because, and I got to get into why I talked about the car, but since that time, I got word back from people kind of more in traditional automotive media and whatnot. No one would talk about it or write about it. And it kind of pissed me off.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Because back when I was in a concept, and I just talked about it a little bit on my YouTube channel, some places would report about it. But why is it when it was just a concept and a YouTuber was trying to do something efficient and maybe eco-friendly and whatnot, they'd write about it, but then when it actually did what I said it was going to do, they wouldn't?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
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.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Yeah, first time out, I didn't even have all the fairings on it. I haven't even tuned it. It was 104.72 miles to the gallon just driving through the countryside normally with stop signs and turns and such. Just jumping in it without even tuning it more. The first time I took it out, we were just idling and doing hard pulls and everything else. I looked at it.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
I'm like, we just got like 88 miles to the gallon. We're not even trying. That's crazy.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Right here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's expensive. It's more expensive in Europe. And like, okay, I have some gas guzzlers for sure. I like V12s and stick shifts and straight pipes.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
It's largely conventional. It's turbo, which is good for diesel because it allows you some flexibility to cruise more. But if you want to make power, you can crank in the boost and do some things to make it efficient. And I experimented even with some catalytic converters and such that will even be better. So there's nothing crazy about the drivetrain. There's no magic bullet there. What about?
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
The other thing, I got to point this out. That drivetrain, when I started, had 130,000 miles on it. It's no spring chicken. What was it from? Volkswagen. What did you pull out of Volkswagen? Pre-dieselgate. Dieselgate's an interesting thing to talk about, too. What's dieselgate? That was the big scandal that Volkswagen went through with allegedly cheating their emissions tests.
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How Casey Putsch Built the Most Efficient Car in the World, and Why the EPA Hates Him for It
Oh, I remember this.