That's been my argument to friends and family this week. If an extra dollar per gallon is what it takes for fewer Ukrainian children to die then that's what it takes.
· We should put extra dollars not to buy goods from Israel, so fewer Palestinian children die
· We should put extra dollars not to buy goods from the US, so fewer Syrian children die
· We should put extra dollars not to buy goods from the UAE, so fewer Yemeni children die
· ...
I'm afraid I don't have so much money.
When you can get cheap goods from somewhere, then you can buy more. We outsourced and promoted cheap products for the benifit of Wallstreet and busniess at the expense of our future wages and global human rights.
Now, if I go back to the generation of my grandparents and to some extend even my parents when they were in their childhood, that was unheard of. You would only heat the main living room during cold winters, and the family would gather. For sleeping you wore pyjamas plus socks etc, and you took a tin with hot potatoes to bed. Showering was not a thing, you would wash daily and maybe bathing on Sundays.
Now that annoys me a little about the whole "Germany needs gas from Russia urgently!" narrative. If you cut out gas for heating/boiling (not electricity), not a single german will die this winter, or next winter. We will lose a lot of comfort, and might have to change our habbits, but we do not have siberian grade winters where having no heating means having to freeze to death.
"Why is my gas bill $500? This is outrageous. I have 2,400 sq ft. (232 sq. m.) house and keep it at 70F (21C) at all times, so what?"