McCain is visitng an oil rig to talk about energy. Last time his photo-op was ruined by an oil spill

McCain meanwhile plans to visit an oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico today to highlight the need for energy independence.

In remarks prepared for delivery, McCain criticizes Obama for opposing new offshore oil drilling.

"Our nation is spending $700 billion overseas every year to countries that don't like us very much," McCain plans to say. "When I'm president that's going to stop. We're going to achieve energy independence and we're going to do it by using every resource at our disposal to get the job done, including new offshore drilling."

As it has before, the Obama campaign charged that McCain has been in Washington for decades and has failed to deal with the energy crisis.

McCain is "standing with the oil companies in opposing a bipartisan compromise in Congress that would expand offshore drilling and, at the same time, make serious investments in alternative energy to break our dependence on foreign oil. When it comes to solving our energy problems, John McCain is just more of the same and America can't afford it," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.

When is someone gonna point out to chucklenuts that oil pumped domestically does not have to remain here as we have sold those rights to multi-national companies?