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StevieM

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33. Thank you for your terrific explanation. Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but I was traveling.

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 05:37 PM

Oct 2015

In the past I have put up posts asking for thoughts on this very issue, home and water heating. The solution doesn't seems as apparent to me as it is with electricity and transportation.

I guess what I am really wondering is how easy it is to come up with solutions in even conservative communities where they just aren't going to make too much of an effort. I realize that some effort will have to be made for any change to occur, but a place like Mississippi can be hard to bring on board, unless the amount of work is minimized.

You may be right....I may be instinctively thinking in terms of a centralized system. Using that paradigm it is easy to rush to some kind of solution involving biofuels.

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Thank you for your terrific explanation. Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but I was traveling. StevieM Oct 2015 #33

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