and so are the workers at the plant I would guess.  The ethanol subsidy got decreased a nickel a gallon (I actually support this move but I am not a farmer) and while at home I hear a lot of complaining.  When the ethanol industry hammers McCain over this it will be game over for him in Iowa (they grow crap loads of corn) and Illinois 9but he never stood a chance there to begin with.  I am interested to see how this will play in Nebraska as it is much redder than Iowa, this might tilt a CD to Obam/and Clinton (I am talking about different CD's here the Omaha based one for Clinton and the middle of the state one for Obama).

The key is if the towns where ethanol plants are consider this issue when they vote (ethanol plants pump huge amounts of money into the local town via property tax, employee wages, and also infrastructure) as if they do republicans are in a lot of trouble here in the corn belt, but this probably helps McCain in New England and the Pacific Northwest (however the issue should be further down the list than it is up here in the Cornbelt)