Russian gas is currently one of the least climate friendly gas options due to methane leaks in production.<p>A simple, fair, carbon price that included those costs (as well as the costs of burning the gas itself) would hurt Russia, give them a clear path to improve in future under more democratic rule, shift investment to insulation, heat pumps and other boring cheap tech.<p>The only part that is needed in the short term is to redirect some of the tax money to poor people and businesses affected by the sudden price increase, which we should be doing anyway, it's a no regret strategy.<p>In particular, the way electricity markets are organised, high gas prices mean we pay more to nuclear, coal, wind and solar producers too. We should just capture that as a windfall tax and use it to roll out more gas alternatives. It's just an accounting fiction, not a real cost increase and it's foolish to let politicians in foreign countries (or domestic producers as happened in Australia) dictate the price of electricity to their benefit when it's not linked to real world factors.