Directions: Read the following passage/information and answer the question that follows:

For many people in the United States who are concerned about the cost of heating homes and businesses, wood has become an alternative energy source to coal, oil and gas. Nevertheless, wood will never supply more than a modest fraction of our continuing energy needs.

Which of the following, if true, does not support the claim made in the last sentence in the passage above?

There are many competing uses for a finite supply of wood and suppliers give the lumber and paper industries a higher priority than they give individual consumers.

Wood produces thick smoke while burning and its extensive use in densely populated cities would violate federal antipollution guidelines.

There are relatively narrow limits to how far wood can be trucked before it becomes more economical to burn gasoline used for transportation instead of wood.

Most apartment dwellers do not have adequate storage space for the amount of wood necessary to supply energy for heating.

There already is a shortage of forest cover on Earth.