In that everything is impacted by fuel costs, because of transportation, true. But you can do some things to counteract that.
Grow your own veggies, and purchase meat from a local farmer/butcher (usually by the quarter cow, etc.)
Keep purchases of goods in general to a minimum shopping at consignment shops or resale shops when possible.
Purchase a hybrid car, or one that uses E85, and keep driving to an absolute minimum.
Turn up the thermostat in the summer/turn it down in the winter.
That's just a few idea. Sure, it's 'painful,' but we sure don't want government controls on oil prices.
No, I don't want government price controls. But if we are fighting a war on terror for real, then we should be funding alternative energy research and not letting the oil companies any where near any of that grant money. Thge biggest threat to our national security is that we import most of our energy from hostile, enemy nations. That has to stop, and it has to stop a long time before 2020 or whatever pie in the sky date they threw out.