One of the many good swashbuckling-free-marketeer lines from the speech McCain is giving right now at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. (And gave some love to small-town chief executive Harry Truman, you can be sure.)

Among other things, he promises to abolish ethanol and other food subsidies. I assume that includes sugar.

He swiftly moved on to energy independence and the $700 billion we ship to oil-producing countries every year. Among his all-of-the-above approach to energy policy, he mentioned — after “drilling now,” clean coal, and nuclear power – flex fuels. No sugar subsidies would help in that regard.