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RE: Eggs and Symbols
If the price of oil rises, everything is likely to become more expensive, because every country has the strange habit of exporting what it produces and importing what its population consumes.
You are right, sometimes, the cost of domestic shipping, or rather, the transportation of goods within the country, can also cause prices to increase.
And let’s not forget the retailers who are driving up prices, even though they aren’t incurring any extra costs. As one retailer said on the radio during the coronavirus crisis: “I’ll keep raising prices as long as people are crazy enough to pay for it!”