Hi everybody, I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of speak Englishpodcast.com.

My mission is to help you to speak English fluently. In this episode, I'm going to talk about a current topic.

The widespread price increase we are suffering because of the economic situation.

In the second part, you will practice grammar with a point-of-view lesson.

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Englishpodcast.com slash podcast. Okay, let's start. If there's one thing we can't say lately when we go shopping for groceries,

is that prices are going up a lot, and this would not be a big problem for people if wages were rising in the same way.

Obviously, people are not happy.

They see that with the same salary,

they can buy fewer and fewer products.

This is partly due to the increase in the price of three goods in the energy sector,

fuel, electricity, and gas.

When I say fuel, I mean gasoline and diesel.

Usually, trucks use diesel.

Fuel prices are about to double. This affects the economy a lot,

because, as you know, goods have to be transported from one place to another. The transport sector takes care of this. A large truck can easily have a tank of 1,000 liters. That's a little more than 250 gallons.

Imagine the cost of all that diesel.

This affects the entire distribution chain and makes products more expensive.

The second key element that is affecting prices is the cost of electricity.

I have seen some bills that double and even triple previous years totals at the customer level.

All businesses in all sectors use electricity. If you increase the cost,

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