RIVALS TURN UP HEAT IN OIL WAR

(New York Post) - John McCain and Barack Obama drilled each over energy yesterday. McCain called Obama a Jimmy Carter clone for proposing an oil-profits tax, while Obama blasted McCain as a toady of oil barons.

Speaking in Houston, where many energy companies are headquartered, McCain said of Obama, "He supports new taxes on oil producers. He wants a windfall-profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.

"If the plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Jimmy Carter's big-idea tool - and a lot of good it did us."