Deb Ferguson, a real estate agent who said she burned four cords of wood each winter in her old Tempwood stove, went to a meeting about the program but it left her wary.
“Don’t get me wrong — I love a good coupon,” Ms. Ferguson said, sitting at her kitchen table in a toasty home across from a horse farm. “But there’s too much government bureaucracy around it.”
In particular, she said she doubted one thing officials at the meeting said: that an old stove can emit as much pollution as seven diesel buses.
“I was like, ‘How the heck do you know that?’ ” Ms. Ferguson said. “There are days when I’ll go outside and say, ‘That smells horrible,’ but honestly I think there are a lot of bigger trees they should be barking up.”
Yeah! How the heck do you people, credentialed scientists with years of studies working for the EPA, know that?
Only in America. We’re giving you A BRAND NEW WOOD STOVE! But I won’t take it, because I don’t believe in science!
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I think you folks aren’t crediting Ms. Ferguson’s skepticism enough. The EPA doesn’t exactly have the greatest public...
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