McCain reserved his sharpest words for the windfall profits tax.
''If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too. ...I'm all for recycling, but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s,'' McCain said in the excerpts.
But on May 5, campaigning in North Carolina, McCain appeared to say he was willing to consider the same proposal.
''I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere. I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, that's not what bothers me, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people -- or industries or corporations -- that are distorting the markets.''
McCain's campaign did not immediately respond to an e-mail request to explain his earlier remarks. Nor did his aides respond to a request for specific provisions that he found objectionable in the 2005 energy bill he opposed.
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