Yea, I did not know this before but it basically all works as a global market by the looks of it. Countries like USA manage to keep their prices down though. I guess it comes down to policy.The UK imports roughly 50% of our gas used and as such that 50% is directly able to go elsewhere should countries that currently source from Russia look elsewhere, ie we have to compete and pay market price for it.
I am not sure how much capacity the UK has to export our domestically produced gas but that also would in effect be at risk of going to a different country
Bit like with our petrol/diesel. The government seems to be raking in the extra money as they have not adjusted their percentage of tax as the prices soared. They could easily target pre crisis tax revenue and pass the rest down, but then who is going to pay for the dodgy PPE that billions were wasted on no?