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It's my pleasure to welcome you here at the Clark Howard Show, our mission to serve and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

Hope you had a great weekend.

I'm ready to help you save some money on your banking today.

Lots of info on that coming up later in this episode.

First, I want to talk about what's going on when you pull into the gas pump.

You know, it's been ugly lately.

And in particular, I paid attention because poorly timed.

I made a prediction a couple of months ago that gas prices at least in the immediate future were going down.

And they did the opposite and as many of us have experienced around the country, gas prices have continued to escalate.

And there are three factors at work right now that are pinching your wallet.

First, we're driving more.

I saw a federal driving data recently because I'm well, I guess I have nothing to do in my life that I looked at.

How it had bottomed out April of last year, driving states substantially depressed.

And then as soon as the vaccines were announced, the amount that people were traveling, the trips they were taking, all that steadily increased.

So demand for gasoline has risen.

Second, we have been a massive energy producer of in the United States from the Canadian

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