Holly Wainwright

And Claire was like, I seem to remember that before COVID you were all like, it's going to be fine.

And I was like,

Yeah, well, you know, what are you going to do?

You know what I mean?

I think that it's interesting because at the moment we're in that media frenzy where everybody's projecting what might happen, what might happen, and they're like, fuel rationing could happen.

It's one of the things that was on the news this morning.

They've uncovered some old report that says they could cap everyone at $40 every time they go to the pump.

The government's like, that's old, it's irrelevant, it's not the thing.

But it's an example, I guess, of the kind of stuff that might happen.

But we're in a moment where everybody's rushing to fill a content,

void with this.

Because we know people are anxious.

And because the big international geopolitical picture of it is very frightening and upsetting in lots of ways, we can focus on our price of our tinned goods and all those things.

And it is genuinely fine to be feeling really anxious about it.

But I also think there is only so much that we can control.

As for your friend who wants to buy the EV, by the way, people with EVs be very smug right now.

And probably for good reason.

And I've got a hybrid so I can be like half smug, but not completely smug.

But the thing is EVs are about to get really expensive too, just to cheer your friend up as well.

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