If you think gas and energy prices are bad now, just wait as the climate crisis continues to take a toll on infrastructure (wildfires, floods, hurricanes, wind). Pumping more gas is only a temporary pricing fix, but it's a long term accelerator creating more issues.
Things we can do now: 1. decentralize to more resilient power (rooftop solar, batteries, microgrids) 2. decarbonize (wind, solar, geothermal) 3. Less individual transport, more bicycling/walking/mass transit first, EVs if you can, hybrid where necessary. 4. lots of disaster prep.
ps. I'm chuckling at all the folks commenting on "that's so dark" or "why the depressing content"... you must have missed reading any of the posts on this account through the last two dozen disasters ;-)
To be clear: there are no easy fixes for this (for example, massive EV deployment comes with its own issues, including materials/mining for batteries, charging infrastructure, and capital costs--and is not practical for everywhere/everything yet).
Answering the "but the grid's not renewable" folks, in California, at least at this particular moment in time (2:39pm on 3/8/22) we're 64.6% renewable energy. 20% natural gas, 0.0% coal. (10.5% nuclear). It's more at peak solar output and when the winds blow in Tehachapi. 
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