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Renting a Car over the Holidays Will Be a Trip

Lots of people are planning to travel this holiday season and a good number of them hope to use rental cars to get around. According to travel website KAYAK, online car rental searches are up 230% compared to 2019 and up 243% over 2020.

But companies are short on cars, having shed huge chunks of their fleets to survive the implosion of their business at the pandemic's outbreak. Restocking has been hampered by the same problem affecting car sales everywhere: a lack of supply driven by semiconductor chip shortages In addition, like other businesses having trouble hiring employees,

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