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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 areas.
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 areas.
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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.
Claim: 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.
Supports the claim that because suppliers given the lumber and paper industry higher priority, the wood doesn't reach the house.
(B) Wood produces thick smoke in burning, and its extensive use in densely populated cities would violate federal antipollution guidelines.
In a way supports the claim. If it violates the federal antipollution rules, means that wood won't be used so widely in the homes.
(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.
Supports the claim. If it is not economical to use woods, then why would people use.
(D) Most apartment dwellers do not have adequate storage space for the amount of wood necessary to supply energy for heating.
Supports the claim. If people don't have storage space for wood, then why would the use it?
(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 areas.
Does not support it. It is economically viable and most of the homes are located within the range of a wood supply.
Claim: 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.
Supports the claim that because suppliers given the lumber and paper industry higher priority, the wood doesn't reach the house.
(B) Wood produces thick smoke in burning, and its extensive use in densely populated cities would violate federal antipollution guidelines.
In a way supports the claim. If it violates the federal antipollution rules, means that wood won't be used so widely in the homes.
(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.
Supports the claim. If it is not economical to use woods, then why would people use.
(D) Most apartment dwellers do not have adequate storage space for the amount of wood necessary to supply energy for heating.
Supports the claim. If people don't have storage space for wood, then why would the use it?
(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 areas.
Does not support it. It is economically viable and most of the homes are located within the range of a wood supply.
