Fighting Back Against Gas Price Insanity #530
How to Money
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
You can’t escape summer! Whether you’re baking under the sun at your local pool on the weekends, or setting off on adventures with your kids during their summer break, the changing season and warmer temperatures signal that it’s summer break. Just like summer impacts basically everyone, so does the price of a gallon of gas increasing at a previously unseen rate. Even electric vehicle owners aren’t immune to the rising prices- though there’s gotta be a palpable sense of relief every time you plug your car in! The US crossed the $5 a gallon threshold a couple weeks ago and who knows where the prices are headed from here?! But we’ll talk about why gas prices are unrelenting right now, we’ll share some of our thoughts on fossil fuels in general, and then we’ll the majority of this episode talking through the many steps you can take to lessen the pain you’re experiencing at the pump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch. |
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| 1:35.7 | Welcome to Had a Money. I'm Joel and I am Matt and today we're discussing fighting back against gas price insanity. |
| 1:50.7 | So just before we hit record, we're joking about mustaches. |
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