For many people in the United States who are concerned about the cost of heating homes and businesses, wood has become an alternative energy source to coal, oil, and gas. Nevertheless,
wood will never supply more than a modest fraction of our continuing energy needs.Which of the following, if true, does NOT support the claim made in the last sentence in the passage above?
(A) There are many competing uses for a finite supply of wood, and
suppliers give the lumber and paper industries a higher priority than they give individual consumers.
(B)
Wood produces thick smoke in burning, and its extensive use in densely populated cities would
violate federal antipollution guidelines.
(C) There are relatively
narrow limits to how far wood can be trucked before it becomes more economical to burn the gasoline used for transportation instead of the wood.
(D) Most apartment
dwellers do not have adequate storage space for the amount of wood necessary to supply energy for heating.
(E) Most
commercial users of energy are located within range of a wood supply, and
two-thirds of United States homes are located outside of metropolitan areasBasically, what makes author say that only a fraction i.e. a small percentage of energy needs would be taken care by wood. Either wood is short in supply or difficult aesthetically to support the domestic infrastructure - negatives of using wood - or advantages of other sources of energy over wood.
So, need to find choice that supports the highlighted text and eliminate them.
Only E makes the cut. it kind of covers both aspects that goes against wood usage.
Answer E.
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