I visited friends in  C-ville  in 1976,  and just found the surrounding area stunning.  I was living in western Massachusetts at the time, and it was nice there but something about the Blue Ridge was pretty unique,  and "unspoiled".   I soon grew addicted to the quiet, and proximity of wildlife,  and looking out my window at trees.   I've been a woodworker for 40 years,  and have heated with wood,  so if I am not shaping small pieces of rosewood or ebony into musical instruments,  or carrying logs of oak and maple upstairs,  I might be going for a walk and checking out living trees.  

Our area here is transitioning from agricultural (when almost all of the trees were cut down)  back to mature forest ( in another 100 years it will be magnificent) so why cut a swath through hundreds of miles of forest to install an outmoded,  inefficient,  blunderbuss of a energy system?  

While I am too old to feel fear and anxiety about such destructive mischief,  I am frustrated by such a shortsighted policy in our nation,  and I vote on that basis,  in favor of renewable energy systems,  that don't pollute.