The price of gas

I read the news about how the cost of gasoline is helping to keep many people off the roads and therefore there is fewer deaths caused by accidents on the roads. But while you listen to this there are many more deaths caused by people robbing stores, homes and banks. A family can no longer even go to the grocery store without noticing how much prices have went up due to the cost of fuel. So many places going out of business and people losing their jobs that they have had for so many years. What is to happen to them? We live in America and it is a land of plenty and we cannot drill here because of the environmentalist. This is so sad...what is more important the life of a human or the life of a fish?