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Unfortunately if nothing slowly starts to change, it's gonna the same thing in several years. Other countries and region will have transitioned and liberated themselves of that dependency while others will still rely, depend, and hope cheap gas.
If someone is a smoker, it's still better to encourage them to try to stop continuously or multiple times, even if not successful, rather than hoping the person will just stop in the future.