Not everyone in Europe is in a comfortable position where they can care about gas prices more than they care about Russian expansion.

> Not everyone in Europe is in a comfortable position where they can care about gas prices more than they care about Russian expansion.

OTOH, not everyone in Europe is in a comfortable position where they can care about Russian expansion more than they care about heating their home.

Pretty much everyone actually. What is the worst consequence of not being able to pay for the heating? In the very extreme case, which could affect a tiny minority of the poorest people, you get broke, and have to apply for welfare. Maybe you'll have to use electric heating and/or wear warm clothes inside for a while. That's about it - nothing comparable to what Ukrainians have to endure.

It's a global market, we get hit by high gas prices too. Almost half of Europeans gas prices are fuel taxes anyway. Talk your governments into backing off those for a while.

Gas prices are extremely high for Americans this year, also.

But it’s true that Russia isn’t a driving force in that.

Gas/fuel prices are a global commodity, of course the Ukraine conflict will affect Americans, not as much as Europe, but Americans will get a lot of it as well. The middle east is probably loving the influx of income.

Gas in this case means methane, right?

While it’s technically true that there’s shipping of LNG outside of pipelines, my impression is that the market for methane isn’t currently very global.

My point was that the resurgence of economies and cold winters has driven up US methane prices to 2-2.5x where they were a year ago.

I was specifically responding to a commenter implying Americans aren’t experiencing difficulty paying for heating this year.

How much higher are German rates for methane?

I think "extremely high" is quite an overstatement.