Blame it on all Climate Control
But it will surely get worse.
This list is only temporary.

BE PREPARED

Additional things you can blame on high gas prices:

Bikers increasingly taking over traffic lanes as traffic drops.
Surge in production of multi-use bikes and bikes with "cool" factors.
Slower traffic.
Increased shuttles for events as venues realize that if you can't get there on a bus, attendance drops.
Elimination of parking surcharge on tickets as people avoid venues that charge them whether they drive or not.
Casual Friday infects other days as companies adjust to workers who are riding bikes, motorcycles, and buses to work.
LEED certification is changed to include secure bike storage as a criteria.
Death of the SUV.
The US market finally opens to Diesels and high efficiency vehicles made around the world.
Average vehicle weight drops on US highways, making the small car normal.
Trucks and light-duty trucks experience restricted access to increase highway safety further.
AAA introduces a bike option on their membership and changes their mission from advocating for cars to advocating for multi-modal travel.
Bike Friday becomes the official bike provider for the US Congress.
Carnival and Holland America both introduce "bus cruise" travel in the US, featuring luxurious features, entertainment, and gambling as you ride across the US to your family reunion/convention/business meeting.

... Okay... *some* of these are in my dreams. ;-)

Here's one from the other side: oil-producing countries ain't geting richer, only their governments and friends.

I live in Venezuela, and when we should have used the incredibly high oil prices for our advantage, instead hospitals are breaking down, crime is on an all-time high, poverty and unemployment increase... you get the picture. I guess there's not much difference on African countries as well.

Good, good, good, good, good, and better.

We impudently focus on all the luxuries we're slowly losing, while ignoring the fact that these luxuries are part of an unsustainable life-style. I like bananas and indie music too, but we have to prepare ourselves for a world where we can't import food and can't listen to non-local live music. These might be inevitabilities, so start getting used to it, you don't NEED those things.

Be happy that these things are happening in a trickle, instead of a Mad Max-esque gas-mongering apocalypse.

This WSJ post is stupid. Everything costs more that's shipped. Everything is shipped, unless it's delivered by bicycle. Food, ipods, tvs, you name it, it got to where it is because of gasoline. So the list is backasswards. The question is what doesn't cost more because of high gas prices.

1) houses in the middle of nowhere
2) SUVs, especially used ones
3) hotels and tourist attractions that need to lower prices to get people to travel far distances to them
4) things delivered by bicycles

I think and exhaustive list of things that don't cost more with rising gas prices will be under 10. Definitely under 20. Whereas a list of things that cost more will be more than 100,000,000.

I believe increasing fuel price will apparantly produce less Co2 .
A high cost fuel will surely prompt people(middle class) atleat hesitate a lazzy drive or unnecessary drive .
Even though it is mutually linked to rise for other commodities ,as clean environment is concerned its much better that we will see only the rich are riding on the roads.