The final-days priorities of the Bush Administration are undergoing a stark reordering due to the current economic turmoil.

While those hoping to lower prices at the pump are clamoring for new oil, most of the new onshore drilling of the past seven years has produced natural gas, not oil.

As President Bush makes a push for offshore energy drilling, the question is whether Americans are feeling enough pain at the pump to force their leaders to go along.

President Bush’s reversal of a longstanding position underscores the role of gas prices as a major issue in the presidential campaign.

Reversing a longstanding position, President Bush will call on Congress to end the ban on offshore oil drilling, underscoring how gas prices have become a major issue in the 2008 campaign.

Reversing a longstanding position, President Bush will call on Congress to end the ban on offshore drilling, underscoring how gas prices have become a major issue in the 2008 campaign.

The three-way division of the largest Pentagon contract in Iraq ends the monopoly held by KBR, which has been accused of mismanagement and exploiting its political ties to Vice President Dick Cheney.