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Forget terrorism or Social Security. The 2008 election is increasingly turning on $4-per-gallon gas. John McCain called for an end to the ban on offshore oil drilling and attacked Barack Obama as 'Dr. No' on the energy crisis. After weeks of the negative ads and polls showing voters more open to coastal exploration, Obama offered tentative support for a plan in the U.S. Senate allowing drilling as close as 50 miles, putting him at odds with environmentalists and Florida's senators. Obama has changed course by saying the U.S. should tap its emergency petroleum reserves. 'He generally supported the maximum wish list of the environmental movement, but now his position on drilling is sticking out like a sore thumb,' said Ken Gross of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, a conservative think tank. "Republicans are getting traction on drilling, and it could hurt Democrats in the general election.'
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