AS A FARMER, I APPLAUD THIS

If ethanol were made from sugar, we would never hear a word about it until the snows had melted and it was time to start considering the sacred cows in warmer regions. But it is in corn country that the first significant event of the presidential season occurs, and every Democrat with a hope of winning the Iowa caucus in January is vowing to make every American put ethanol in the tank. It seems like a very long time ago that John McCain began his quest for the Republican nomination by bluntly denouncing ethanol as an environmentally dubious ripoff of the nation's drivers.