Yes, we waste energy, but raise prices, especially hitting the lowest part of the society is definitively outrageous. Personally seeing the energy price rise I feel a small inflation in what I buy normally and have a confirmation of having made a good investment building a BBC house with a small p.v. BUT for my neighbor that's just means pay much more, not for the environment but for some humans profits.
If such raise are ONLY for "natural causes" that's would not be much fun, but still just, who consume more pollute more pay more. However present rises are NOT (at least largely not only) due to natural causes. Gas price and so electricity price in EU does not skyrocket because of the Russian but because EU Commission choose deliberately to negotiate them with monthly based future instead of long term contracts (look for Dutch TTF). The VERY SAME thing that happen in KZ: https://www.energyintel.com/download?issueId=0000017e-2c65-d... and who profit is very clear: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/North-Sea-Oil-Operator... and https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/energy... also is clearly stated that such move is done to "rebalancing energy prices" (p. 148) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... for the Green New Deal purpose and NOT to make a Green New Deal "possible" but to make their private-public actors super-earn a very big amount of money. Normally that's have a name: embezzlement.