Glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you and your wallet.

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you make.

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And coming up later, you are not going to believe in the aftermath of the hurricanes.

Something home builders are trying to do in the state of Florida.

It is the ultimate and Clark rages that puts people's lives at risk.

I'm going to tell you about it later.

And then much later, I've got an update on the Equifax data breach.

The questions coming in will not stop.

I mean, we're getting literally thousands of questions a day.

And I want to address some that had not occurred to me and some new developments that

may be of service to you coming up later this hour.

So I want to first hit you with some information if you live in any of the parts of the country

where you've seen a big run up in the cost of gasoline because of Hurricane Harvey hitting

Texas in Louisiana, the most important and most vulnerable spots in our oil distribution

system and refining system in the United States.

And so there's been in a lot of places in the country, major increases in the cost of

a gallon of gasoline.

And then a certain percentage stations varying day by day and market by market, they've not

had gasoline that that is really a past problem.

The high gasoline prices, relatively speaking, those are also going to fade very quickly

over the next few weeks.

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