Perhaps there is still enough forest cover in U.S. that one living there might think in terms of "wow, free fuel for car" - but have you not heard of global warming, receding ice sheets and so forth? The connection is that it is only a sufficient forest cover that might save the earth from a desert-and-ocean arid landscape that will not allow humans to survive, and such possibilities might happen soon.
What we need is not wood burning - but a complete ban on wood chopping, tree felling, and so forth; in addition we need to plant forests - not those sort that are for timber, but real ones with diversity - so the disaster train might get to slow down and perhaps even reverse.
Trees might absorb the carbon that is the engine to disaster scenario, and cool the earth, and so forth.
It is one thing being fond of beaches, it is another to forget you need to get home, to have a home, and the precious water you need is not forever if gobal warming gets too far. Trees will help that too.
Please, start thinking about this, make it unfashionable and sin and crime to cut a tree down without state level permission, plant more trees and so on.
