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Recently I purchased something for $10 that could potentially save my life.

I'm going to tell you what that is.

Also, something that costs way more than $10, a $1500 technology fee being imposed by one

of the big car makers. I'm going to tell you what you need to watch out for is your shopping

for a vehicle.

So let me start with this. I've been reading these tragic stories about people who've

died on vacation or traveling away from home for work in a hotel room because the hotel

didn't have its act together. Had a carbon monoxide leak and that's a silent killer and

these people have tragically died in their hotel rooms. There were three people, I think

two different hotel rooms that died in a hotel and resorted in the Bahamas. Other people

fortunately survived the carbon monoxide poisoning at that hotel.

And the weird thing is there were people who'd gone to the doctor or the hospital the

day before complaining of symptoms that carbon monoxide symptoms manifest like so many other

things that people don't even know medical professionals don't automatically think, oh,

wow. I wonder could this be carbon monoxide poisoning? Because apparently there are enough

symptoms that are similar to other illnesses that they could miss something that's more

relevant in most people's cases, but it's a terrible way to die. So hotels all around

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