How Global Chaos Ends Up in Your Driveway

About this episode

The Car Chick discusses the impact of global events on the automotive industry and consumer prices.

Summary After a three-month hiatus, The Car Chick® is back — and apparently while she was gone, the global economy decided to completely lose its damn mind. In this comeback episode of The Straight Shift, The Car Chick breaks down how conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, rising oil prices, tariffs, petrochemicals, EVs, and global supply-chain chaos are affecting far more than just what you pay at the gas pump. Because modern cars aren’t just vehicles anymore — they’re giant rolling internation...

People in this episode

Host: LeeAnn Shattuck

Topics covered

• global economy
• automotive industry
• oil prices
• supply chain
• tariffs
• electric vehicles

Keywords

• global chaos
• automotive
• oil prices
• supply chain
• tariffs
• electric vehicles

Mentioned in this episode

Products: EVs

Places: Strait of Hormuz, global economy

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