Plus, Robert Redford speaks for ANWR, Jeb Bush goes a bit green, Martha Stewart shows her true colors, and more.

I'm never quite sure what to say when people start talking about ethanol. Is it a useful alternative fuel that we should be putting to greater use? Or a boondoggle - taxpayer money wasted on subsidies to farmers for a fuel that will never save us from oil? So I was happy to see a Q & A on ethanol in the Sunday New York Times Automobile section.

Alternative energy is on the radar today in the Pacific Northwest, where a new study found that half of Washington’s energy supply could be provided