Perhaps the growing chorus I posted about last week – calling for increased domestic oil drilling — is resonating with John McCain. He is now calling for ending the federal ban on off-shore drilling for certain areas. According to the Houston Chronicle, “McCain also suggests in today’s speech that the federal government relax regulations on nuclear power and the development of oil refineries.”

While hardly a clarion call for the revamped federal energy policy the nation needs, these are encouraging sounds from the McCain camp. It will be interesting to hear Obama’s response.