> It's an odd leap from electricity prices to carbon tax to basic income. . . Don't increase prices like so many in Germany feel would be the right thing to do, it only impacts those who can't afford better housing

The "odd leap" from carbon tax to basic income is exactly to address this issue of the cost to the less well-off. In a tremendously simpler, more effective, and freer way than detailed bans of particular uses of energy which also have successful industries with strong lobbies behind them.