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Expanding on that point a bit and sticking to the subject of inflation not gas per se, some things are common inputs to virtually all businesses or at least the majority.

Capital - someone has invested money, either their own or borrowed, into the business. Either way a return on that capital is expected.

Labour - someone works in the business and labour isn't free. Even if there's no employees, just the owner, they still need to earn enough to live on.

Energy - almost all businesses require some form of energy input be it electricity, petroleum based fuels, gas, coal or whatever but there aren't many that don't have at least some expenditure in this area. It's obviously far more significant for manufacturing than it is for a legal firm but there are very few for whom it's zero.  

Now that's perhaps stating the obvious for many but I've mentioned it simply to point out that those three are inputs to virtually every business. Everything from farming to accounting to tourism to dentists have at least some expense in those three areas. They are central pillars for all economic activity.

If any of those rise in cost then it affects the input costs for practically every business and most will at least try to recover that from their customers.