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No. Role of government is to provide minimum standard of living for general population. A lot of people will freeze in Kaza, as basic necessities are a huge part of their monthly budget and price hike is too severe to handle. "Let market sort itself" only works if government thinks about it in advance, have fair elections, low corruption, etc. Cost of natural gas / coal / oil is going up significantly and is a huge p…
This is such a bizarre comment given the history of price controls and their horrendous outcomes.
Price controls on utilities in the US are extremely common and successful. There are good ways to implement price controls and there are bad ways. Also, there are just as many examples of bad outcomes when you treat markets which are inherently unfree (i.e utilites, where infrastructure is typically monopolized) as free markets.