The state Board of Environmental Protection places a ban on BPA. Why is it that there seems to be more concern about that than the use of ethanol in gasoline?

While it is worthy to stop using products containing BPA, a bigger concern to everyone’s health is the federally-mandated use of ethanol in gasoline.

Using ethanol creates a loss of 34 percent of the energy per gallon and requires more fuel to be consumed to go the same distance. That equates to more emissions in the air we all breathe.

A 2007 Stanford University study showed that ethanol produces more formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and ground level ozone than burning regular gasoline. We already have learned of the disaster to drinking water from wells contaminated from ethanol in gasoline.

There is also the loss of a food supply (corn) to produce ethanol.

I question why the state Board of Environmental Protection has not recommended a ban on the use of ethanol?

Ron Miller, Greene