I am not thinking electricity and gas should be public goods. Among other things, pricing should help limit their use. In the 1980s, I visited the Soviet Union as a state guest. They talked about human rights, but they considered human rights to be housing, food, employment, healthcare, and education. It's true, most of their versions of those rights were pretty threadbare, and the political elite had access to a far better (and smaller) system, but they represented a basic floor under the general public, and most people appreciated that, especially after they lost it all during the rise of privatization.