Nick Fountain
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That's like my whole job is to not know the answers to questions and then figure them out.
Luckily, Valerie got over it.
She told us she thought of her question while prepping for a camping trip.
She has a diesel guzzling camper van and had a question related to how much it costs to fill up at the pump.
So she whipped out her phone and started talking into it.
And when her email landed in our inbox, it read...
I got a kick out of that.
I have an almost five-year-old who definitely has never heard of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Not sure she knows what gas is either.
And Valerie's question gets more advanced real fast.
She asked what OPEC does to make oil prices go up or down.
All right, I am going to try to answer as many of those questions as possible.
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