Table 3: Respondents’ views of benefits from sustainably harvested º£½ÇÉçÇø wood bioproducts

May 4, 2017 Spire 2017 Issue
Mill Town and Statewide respondents’ views of how beneficial each product would be if produced from wood sustainably harvested from º£½ÇÉçÇø’s forests, by percent of respondents.

(1=not at all beneficial, and 7=very beneficial)
Electricity
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 518 4.8 4.2 6.6 12.4 14.5 20.5 37.1 5.37 (1.76) 1.533 0.126
Statewide 491 5.1 5.3 5.7 14.7 15.5 25.1 28.7 5.20 (1.74)
Gasoline substitutes like ethanol
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 521 10.7 7.1 9.6 16.5 14.2 16.1 25.7 4.68 (2.00) 0.180 0.857
Statewide 487 10.7 8.6 7.4 16.6 14.4 19.3 23.0 4.65 (1.99)
Diesel substitutes like biodiesel
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 517 11.8 9.5 10.1 18.4 13.3 14.3 22.6 4.45 (2.02) 0.269 0.788
Statewide 488 13.9 8.8 8.0 17.2 15.0 16.8 20.3 4.42 (2.04)
Bio-oil for home heating
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 519 6.0 6.2 5.4 14.8 13.9 21.6 32.2 5.18 (1.83) 0.335 0.737
Statewide 491 7.3 5.1 5.5 12.4 16.1 25.1 28.5 5.14 (1.83)
Wood pellets for home heating
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 522 4.2 4.2 5.0 12.5 13.8 22.0 38.3 5.47 (1.71) 2.619 0.009
Statewide 491 8.8 2.6 4.9 13.2 16.7 24.0 29.7 5.18 (1.84)
Plastics substitutes
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 521 7.1 4.4 6.0 18.6 17.3 19.2 27.4 5.02 (1.80) -1.704 0.089
Statewide 488 5.3 3.7 4.9 14.3 19.3 27.9 24.6 5.20 (1.66)
Medicines and pharmaceuticals
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 520 2.7 3.8 4.0 17.5 14.0 21.5 36.3 5.46 (1.60) -0.285 0.775
Statewide 490 3.1 2.7 5.3 13.5 14.3 29.0 32.2 5.49 (1.56)