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During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, former Vice President Al Gore bashes Trump for not allowing the United States to be the leader in green technology:AMANPOUR: “Well, you rate America where it is in terms of leadership right now, because for all I know, the Chinese are accelerating way beyond America on green technology.”GORE: “Yes. And it‘s tragic that Donald Trump and his fossil fuel polluter allies are shooting America in both feet metaphorically, where the economy is concerned. You know, here‘s a new statistic that‘s just out, Christiane, China is now exporting to other countries more green technology like electric vehicles and windmills and solar. The value of their green tech exports now far exceeds the exports from the United States to the rest of the world. Of all of the fossil fuels, all of the coal and gas and oil, and we‘re seeing this transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy and electric vehicles and batteries and these exciting new technologies that are pollution free. They create three times as many jobs per dollar spent compared to the old dirty fossil fuels. And that‘s where the economic future is. And it‘s aligned with the future we have to build for a clean environment.”Source: CNN/Grabien