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13 December 2007 - On the same day as former US Vice-President Al Gore said at the climate change negotiations in Bali that the United States was holding up progress on climate change agreement, a forward-looking US Energy Bill stalled in the US Senate.
'I am not an official of the United States and I am not bound by the diplomatic niceties,' Nobel Peace Prize winner Gore said in his speech earlier today. 'So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth. My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali.'
He went on to urge the conference to forge an agreement in the hope that a new US government would co-operate in the future.
Just hours later, the much-debated Energy Bill, which would have legislated for strongly increased automobile fuel efficiency as well as powerful tax incentives for renewables, received just 59 votes, rather than the 60 it would have needed to be carried.
In a statement, the American Wind Energy Association commented 'Today's vote is out of step with Americans across the political spectrum who overwhelmingly support clean, home-grown renewable energy. Wind and solar power can lower home energy bills, strengthen our energy security, create new manufacturing jobs and, perhaps most importantly, reduce global warming pollution even as we meet growing electricity demand. We will continue to work with Congressional leaders on these vital issues, and are confident that we will secure enactment of the tax incentives and other policies that Americans need and want to put our nation on the path to a clean and secure energy future.'
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