Where have all the minivans gone?

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard? Minivans are cool again, and one of our listeners wants to know why she can’t find a minivan for sale at reasonable price. Our minivan-driving host has answers. Plus, we’ll take your questions about ethanol, consumer spending here and abroad, along with how we’re all managing to still go to work amid everything happening around us.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

Consumer spending by country from CEIC Data
“Chinese consumer spending is set to double by 2030, Morgan Stanley predicts” from CNBC
“How Ethanol and E15 Gas Fit Into Biden’s Plans to Fight Inflation” from The Washington Post
Ethanol explained from U.S. Energy Information Administration
“Is ethanol really worse than gasoline? The debate, revisited.” from Vox
“The minivan is kind of making a comeback this summer” from Marketplace
“People Are Finding It Hard to Focus on Work Right Now” from The Atlantic

If you’ve got a question you’d like us to find the answer to, email us at [email protected] or leave us a voice message at (508) 827-6278 or (508) U-B-SMART.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, wow. Must be one
0:03.9	Carlos because he's the only
0:05.2	guy that like us do does that
0:06.4	too. Anyway, anyway,
0:10.1	everybody I'm kind of
0:11.4	welcome back to make me smart
0:12.6	where we make today makes sense.
0:15.8	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:17.0	Thank you for joining us for what
0:18.6	do you want to know Wednesday?
0:19.8	And that means it's time to answer
0:21.7	the questions that you thank you
0:23.5	very much do send us.
0:25.2	And so yeah, we're ready to get to it.
0:27.4	If you have questions about the economy
0:30.4	or business or technology,
0:32.4	email us, make me smart at Marketplace.org
0:34.4	or leave us a voicemail.
0:35.4	Our number is 508UB Smart.
0:37.4	Lots of ways to get all of us.
0:39.4	So here we go.
0:41.4	Yeah, first up is a question
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