Lane Greene

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Fear-jerker: America’s AI backlash · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

So Europe to pay

Less on gas than it used to, and therefore Europe has been less affected by the rise in energy prices from the war in Iran than America.

Well, they should cool down their houses a bit, but they shouldn't cool down their efforts to make their energy mix greener.

There's still a lot to be done.

We need more green renewable power online, and we need national markets to be connected up better.

This may sound a bit nerdy, but if you can't sell energy across markets, then you get inefficient use of that energy, precisely as an economist would tell you.

And that's both in cost terms and in climate terms.

Whereas if the best greenest energy can flow, then

And it can go to where it's needed the most, but we still have lots of national protectionism that keeps that from being as efficient within the EU's single market as it should be.

Europeans are working on building out battery storage at some speeds.

There are lots of hopeful signs in the energy mix in Europe.

There are pilot projects, small ones still, to connect electric cars to the grid.

So you can not only power up your car when you need to drive, but your car can be

A backup battery and discharge when you need it to store power for your house and send it back into the grid.

In short, completing the green transition will not just make the European economy less burdensome to the climate.

It will do something that any politician, left or right or center, should be in favor of, which is make air conditioning available to all.

Very hot summer is expected in Europe.

Air conditioning and cool weather not only is

Is more comfortable and relieves misery but saves lives.

And so Green politicians, if they're not ready to switch on their air conditioning today, should at least embrace the idea of available air conditioning.

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