Table 3: Respondents’ views of benefits from sustainably harvested Maine 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 Maine’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)