Obama, Gop Vie For Upper Hand On Energy

BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign....

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