Be careful with the conviction that you are right, and others are wrong, to the degree that you are willing to force people to do things. Forcing people to do things for their own good has a terrible historical track record in terms of doing damage, and people who do it, no matter how sure they are, often find out later they were wrong after all.

You may not think raising gas prices is the sort of force that might incur damage, but making life more difficult and expensive is inherently costly, and those costs are real -- settling for jobs that are poor fits, education that is missed, businesses that fail, needed care that becomes economically impractical, opportunities missed due to expenses. A sacrifice that means little to you may be tragic in someone else's life.