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U.S. President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton attend the memorial service for Senator Robert Byrd on the steps of the state capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, July 2, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Larry Downing / Reuters)

Obama talks green jobs with Clinton (finally)

An oil derrick can be seen in a field near Denver, Colorado May 16, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES) (Â© Lucas Jackson / Reuters)

Steve Everley, David Roberts

The energy future is now, and always has been

President Barack Obama is photographed after delivering a televised address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday June 15, 2010. President Obama said the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

President Barack Obama makes a statement on his small business jobs initiatives, Friday, June 11, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

This image made from video released by British Petroleum (BP PLC), equipment is seen on the live feed from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig Tuesday, June 1, 2010. BP has turned to another temporary fix, an effort to saw through the pipe leaking the oil and cap it that could be tried as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/BP PLC) (AP)

President Barack Obama, center, LaFourche Parish president Charlotte Randolph, and U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, take a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill on Friday, May 28, 2010 in Port Fourchon, La. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Earth to Obama: Take over BP

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in this handout photograph taken on April 21, 2010 and obtained on April 22. Eleven workers were missing and 17 injured in an explosion at the Transocean oil drilling rig, and crews were fighting the fire 16 hours later, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday. An estimated 126 people were aboard the Deepwater Horizon at the time of the explosionA Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors April 21, 2010. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon's 126 person crew. Picture taken April 21, 2010. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Â© Ho New / Reuters)

A turning point for energy legislation?

Oil drips from the rubber gloves of a Greenpeace Biologist at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

A relief platform and oil recovery ship sits over the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico 55 miles (89 km) south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana May 8, 2010. BP Plc engineers positioned a four-story metal chamber above a gushing, ruptured oil well on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday in an unprecedented effort to contain a possibly catastrophic spill. REUTERS/Sean Gardner (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) (Reuters)

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship

Logos for British Petroleum, Chevron and Shell

** FILE ** The Troll A, gas platform run by the Norwegian oil giant Statoil company, stands above the North Sea, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) off the coast of Norway, in this file photo dated June 8 2006. Norway's key petroleum companies, Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA, elbowed into the fray for global oil Monday with a plan to form a state-controlled giant that would be the world's largest offshore oil producer. (AP Photo / Marit Hommedal / Scanpix Norway) ** NORWAY OUT ** (Associated Press)

Associated Press

FILE - In this aerial file photo taken Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, an oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. The oil rig, which erupted in flames March 20, 2010, and is at the center of a massive spill off the Louisiana coast, has a history of minor incidents attributed to equipment failure, human error and bad weather during its nine-year operating history, according to official records.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file) (AP)

Palin calls for more drilling as 2nd rig overturns

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