Environmental and liberal groups are teaming up to attack Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on oil drilling today, with the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org both airing television ads linking the presumptive GOP nominee to major oil companies.

While several Democratic-aligned groups have yet to launch independent expenditures this year, environmental groups are planning to run a costly effort to elect Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) despite McCain's historic support for a federal cap on carbon emissions linked to global warming. McCain has cast erratic votes over the years on several environmental issues, and has infuriated green groups with his support for offshore oil drilling and a federal gas tax holiday.

Each separate ad buy will cost six-figures, according to the groups, with the Sierra Club airing its ad statewide in New Hampshire; as well as in Denver, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and (that famous battleground state) DC. That ad suggests "Big Oil companies have our economy and politics in a choke hold" and McCain's answer to rising gas prices is "another $4 billion giveaway to Big Oil." Obama, the group argues, "has a plan the breaks the grip of Big Oil." Earlier this week, the group launched a six-figure radio buy in swing states. Meanwhile, MoveOn.org PAC unveiled a television commercial this morning featuring a man who looks directly into the camera and speaks to McCain, the way a young mother did in the group's earlier anti-war ad titled "Not Alex." The man tells the Arizona senator he used to think he was "a principled guy," but now considers his offshore drilling plan a gimmick. (See here for more on the MoveOn spot.)  Read rest…

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