By MAGGIE HABERMAN
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June 21, 2008
Barack Obama yesterday slammed John McCain's pitch to permit offshore drilling for oil and gas, saying the idea "makes absolutely no sense at all."
Obama said the McCain plan to permit drilling off the US coast, which he announced earlier this week, would do little to provide real savings before the year 2030.
And "even then you're looking at cents on a gallon of gas," Obama said at a meeting with Democratic governors in Chicago.
Shifting positions, Obama also said he was open to probing an expansion of nuclear power.
