Trulove, Susan2015-10-292015-10-292006-03-30http://hdl.handle.net/10919/59271Why isn't ethanol production growing by leaps and bounds in the face of higher gasoline prices? Ethanol production from cornstarch is a $10 billion dollar business in the United States and 4 billion gallons of ethanol will be produced in 2006. In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush called for doubling ethanol production by 2012, and replacing 75 percent of Middle Eastern oil with bioethanol from renewable materials by 2025.text/htmlIn CopyrightCollege of Agriculture and Life SciencesPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations