Actually paying for heating and cooling for our comfort and/or our survival is no different than paying for food, shelter, clothing, medicine etc. Somebody has to provide all that and they do so because they get paid to do it. And all of us have money to pay them because we in turn run businesses that provide products or services or we trade our labor, experience, expertise, talents for cash so that we can pay for what we need.
Where taxes come in is what the government takes from our income or adds to the cost of the products and services we use. And it is greatly exacerbated by UNNECESSARY law, rules, regulation that greatly increase the cost of the products and services we use.
And few things in our human history have raised those costs more than government mandates of green energy.
How this relates to your OP is that absolutely nobody can tell us how much all the trillions spent on green energy have reduced the CO2 in the atmosphere. And if the government should take all our money in taxes and require us to use all green energy, most of humanity would starve, freeze, die of heat within a fairly short time. And I'm pretty sure they still couldn't measure how much CO2 was reduced in the atmosphere.