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Talks Energy in California  Sen. John McCain brought his energy
campaign to the charmless acres of California's Central Valley
today--the flat, hot expanses of industrial farms where
motorists inured to the stink of fertilizer and manure have
found cause for violent complaint with unleaded at $4.69 a
gallon.  "My gas went from $180 a month to $450 a month," said a
school teacher who commutes 50 miles each way to work,
addressing the presumptive GOP nominee at a town hall meeting at
California State University - Fresno. "I don't see an immediate
answer to that. Do you?"  No, McCain replied, except perhaps for
the notion of a "much derided" gas tax holiday that he and Sen.
Hillary Clinton both embraced. But beyond the immediate, the
Arizona Republican offered a brimming basket of ideas to nurse
the country away from dependence on foreig