Corn syrup.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

I've been a fan of Jim Lehrer for years. I like Margaret Warner, Gwen Ifill, Ray Suarez, and the rest of the gang. I do, however, have a beef. It is their failure to take on ethanol, the fuel made from corn. Recently in a segment about the pending energy bill, there was not even a hint that there might be something wrong with the bill's enormous subsidy for ethanol. Indeed, the program treated the preservation of that subsidy as a justification for the grant of immunity to the notorious MTBE, a fuel additive which, in the words of The Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray, has "an unfortunate...