Yes, Scrooge seems to care about money and nothing else until he is visited by the three Spirits.
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He'd spent all his life grubbing money, and not only by fair means.
Yes and he cares about his money more than anything.
He sees this as a status symbol. By having money he proves his worth or so he believes
A miser is 'tight with money' and a hoarder of money. Another term of a miser is a Scrooge!
At that time in Victorian Britain coal was very expensive. Scrooge was against burning a lot of coal which in effect was burning money