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The View of the War From a Florida Gas Station
March 27, 2026·25 min·2 clips
A veteran sacrifices food for his children as gas prices drain his grocery budget.
As heard by us
A Florida gas station shows how war becomes a price change customers may feel immediately.
A Florida gas station turns a distant war into something immediate and transactional. The episode stays with Cam as he raises the premium price from $4.49 to $4.69, then returns the next morning to open the station and weigh whether customers will register another 20-cent jump.
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Hear a 20-cent gas hike become a very local measure of a faraway war.
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