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On April 20th an explosion ripped through BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig

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About 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana

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11 workers lost their lives

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17 others were injured

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And soon nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean oil began spewing into the water

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Already this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced

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And I'm like an earthquake or hurricane

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It's not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days

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The millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico or more like an epidemic

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One that we will be fighting for months

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Uneven ears

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But make no mistake

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We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long as it takes

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We will make BP pay for the damage their company has cost

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And we will do whatever is necessary to

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To help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy

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For decades we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil or number

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We've talked and talked about the need to end America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels

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And for decades we have failed to act with a sense of urgency that this challenge requires

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Time and again the path forward has been blocked

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Not only by oil industry lobbyists but also by a lack of political courage and candor

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Consequences of our actions are now in plain sight

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Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be right here in America

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Each day we spend nearly 1 billion dollars of our wealth to foreign countries

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For their or

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Today as we look to the gulf we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of

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Black group

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We cannot confine our children to this cute

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The tragedy unfolding on our Coast

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Is the most painful and Powerful reminder yet that

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The time to embrace a clean energy future is now

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Now is the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission

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To unleash America's Innovation and seize control of our own destiny

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Each of us has a part to play in a new future that will benefit all of us

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We recover from this recession

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The transition to clean energy has the potential to grow our economy and create millions of jobs

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But only if we accelerate that

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Pat Transit

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Only if we seize the moment

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And only if we rally together and act as one nation

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Workers and entrepreneurs scientists and

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Citizens

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The public and private sectors

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Apple one approach I will not accept is an action

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One answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is somehow too big and too difficult to me

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You know that the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks of World War 2

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The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely

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On the surface of the Moon

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And yet time and again

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We have refused to settle for

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For the paltry limits of conventional wisdom

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Instead what has to find us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny

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Our determination to fight for the America we want for our children

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The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face

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This nation is known hard times before and we will surely know them again

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What size is true

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What has always seen us through

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Is our strength

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Resilience

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And our unyielding faith that something better awaits us

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If we summon the courage to reach for it