Florida increasingly takes to McCain's view on offshore drilling

The dolphins and pelicans that swim off Caladesi Island's linen-white sands along Florida's western coast help draw almost 80 million visitors and $57 billion to the "Sunshine State" each year. But energy companies say that an even bigger prize waits to be taken from the seabed just 50 miles, or 80 kilometers, from shore in the Gulf of Mexico: oil and natural gas that might wean the United States off its costly dependence on resources from potentially unfriendly or unstable countries. After opposing offshore drilling for a quarter of a century on the basis that it would be a threat...

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