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> (And it is carbon neutral, so if you're going to burn something, better wood than fossil fuels from that standpoint.)

It is carbon neutral only if you plant a tree. Which you can do anyway.

Burning gas or oil, which have a better co2/kwh ratio and planting a tree is better than burning a tree and planting a new one.

It's carbon neutral in the sense that the CO2 it puts in the air was taken out of the air a decade ago, not millions of years ago.

>Which you can do anyway.

Buying wood funds planting trees. Buying gas and oil do not.

> It's carbon neutral in the sense that the CO2 it puts in the air was taken out of the air a decade ago, not millions of years ago.

That doesn't matter at all.

> Buying wood funds planting trees. Buying gas and oil do not.

Buying wood to burn it also increases the price, reducing the use of wood for better things.