When most Americans look to biofuels, we see an opportunity for domestic sources of energy to replace some part of the oil we currently import.  We see a chance for American farmers to make money from the millions of miles we travel by car, instead of those funds going to dictators and terrorists.  We see a chance to use a fuel whose carbon content is recycled from one crop to the next, not released into the atmosphere after being sequestered for tens of millions of years.

But we don't see it the way the Bush administration see it.  To their eyes, ethanol looks like another way to relax environmental rules.  

As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation.

This may not be the action with the worst consequences, but to me the fact that the Bush Administration lied to NY firefighters about the toxicity of the world trade center smoke at the exact moment of their greatest heroism and hence condemned many of the bravest of Americans to debilitating illness is the most shameful act of the Bush Administration. It is like sticking a knife into the guts of the person who just risked his life to save you.

And it seems our judicial system agrees.