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At least for the gas this is the start of a better way of thinking about the problem. When I still lived in the US, I heard ppl complain about the price of gas all the time. However, I never heard complaints about our dependency on gas or the economic problem that the cheapest stuff there is per volume felt expensive to buy.
One of the things that feeds into my insufferable smugness about living in a walkable city is I haven't paid for gas in years (outside of like... maybe 2 road trips a decade). It's just not something I think about.
I had the luxury of being able to move somewhere with trains and buses, though.
I'm in the "drives an EV charged from roof solar panels" insufferable smugness camp.
There how I've reframed it every time I hear it. So how are you reducing your need for gas? I'm biking and taking transit so it has stopped hurting so much. Try to alter their thinking from "this is unavoidable" to "I guess we could do fewer trips"