If oil keeps going up prices will keep going up. Everything has energy costs associated. Factories use energy, food processing uses energy. Transportation uses energy. As long as putin's war keeps driving up oil those follow on price increases will keep happening.

Thankfully none of us are extremely poor people in Africa. I was reading today that a lot of folks in Africa depend on wheat from Russia/Ukraine for survival. Aside from the war, various weather issues around the world have also resulted in lower yields/higher prices in the past couple of years. Hunger there will be going up. Keeping that in mind makes the $40ish I spent to buy half a tank of gas the other day seem so unimportant that it probably wasn't worth the electrons I used to mention it on the other thread.