FWIW - just got my Economist magazine and it had this article in it: Iowa's ethanol economy The craze for maize May 10th 2007 | BELMOND, MARCUS AND NEVADA, IOWA From The Economist print edition Ethanol is rapidly transforming life in Iowa and the rest of the corn belt <A HREF="http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9149882" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9149882</A>