BiggerPockets Money Podcast · Friday, October 2, 2026
Jay Scott emphasizes that energy price increases have a pervasive impact across the entire economy, unlike more specific commodity price hikes. He explains that rising costs for fuel, electricity, and transportation directly affect consumers and businesses, influencing the price of nearly all goods and services.
“But when the price of fuel goes up, it impacts every part of the economy. It has a direct impact on our driving costs, just transportation because gas is more expensive. It has a direct impact on what we pay in electricity costs.”
“And so energy just kind of hits every part of the economy. We can't avoid it. We can't say, I'm going to avoid that one particular product or two particular products that went up in cost. Because when energy is the cost of the inflation or the catalyst for the inflation, everything gets hit.”