Looking to reset his priorities after a rancorous first year in office, President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address promised to work harder to create green jobs and said he would welcome new domestic offshore drilling for oil and gas as well as an expanded focus on nuclear energy.

“To create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives,” the president said during his speech last week. “That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. And yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.”

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has been accused of delaying action on a bill that would extend tax credits to the biodiesel industry that expired at the end of last year.

Jim Lyons, an aide to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has been working hard to get the tax credit renewed, said Grassley has tried several times without success to get Reid to schedule a vote on the bill.

In the 1983 movie, “Trading Places,” the characters played by Eddy Murphy and Dan Aykroyd profit from trade on illicit information gleaned from a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on juice and oranges.

In the process, they ruin Randolph and Mortimer Duke, the bothers who run a commodities brokerage firm. Misled, the Dukes incur a loss of $394 million, which they are unable to pay in cash to cover the margin call. Their business and private assets are sold off by the trading board to cover their debts.