[ZeroGravitas]

In the long term, you want the cleaner, cheaper sources to be paid the same as the gas, as the short term profit encourages businesses to enter the market and build more solar and wind, and this then decreases the price. Kind of basic market dynamics.

In the short term, when a geopolitical rival is invading your neighbours and using its control of certain resources to destabilise your own country, the windfall profits should be seized and returned to the people.

This happened somewhat slowly and piecemeal in europe because big energy companies had too much sway over the political process.