And on the other side of the same coin you have suburbanites driving 2 ton vehicles that drive 20 miles to the gallon.
So higher gas prices will primarily require a lot of people to abandon the "who cares about mileage" mindset and start driving actually normal vehicles.
Also plenty of EVs have 300+ mile ranges and that will suffice for 95% of travel in the US too. Insert proper plug in hybrids in the mix that do 50 miles electric and probably range anxiety is something of the past.
Remaining on the teet of big oil means big oil will keep sucking up corporate welfare while devastating our planet.
Also public transport needs to improve. Dedicated buslanes to bypass traffic jams in big cities means that each bus takes dozens of cars off the road.