Agence France-Presse: The financial crisis and falling oil prices risk setting back attempts by the next US president and Congress to promote renewable energy and the fight against climate change, analysts say. “Either candidate is going to have a very difficult time promoting a new alternative (energy) if oil comes back down because it (the price) is not going to be seen by most Americans as a crisis any more,” said Charles Ebinger, director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings …