“I’m worried these people, if given political power, will tax natural gas to the point we’ll all be literally freezing in the dark.”
In Switzerland, Sweden and Finland, natural gas is four or five times the cost in the USA or Canada.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/253047/natural-gas-prices-in-selected-countries/
Energy poverty has become a thing in Germany since they started shutting down their nuclear plants in the wake of Fukushima, along with installing all sorts of expensive Green energy boondoggles. There are plenty of articles like this out there:
Over 300,000 poverty-hit German homes have power cut off each year
https://www.thelocal.de/20170302/over-300000-poverty-hit-german-homes-have-power-cut-off-each-year
Of course they don’t manage to get into the policy reasons why energy is so expensive.