I very clearly remember that dark cold morning about 1980 driving through the small southwest Missouri town of Reeds Spring. There was a pre-dawn temperature inversion that day and the warmer air above captured in that Ozark valley great clouds of smoke from the wood stoves heating people’s homes. Wow, I thought. I hope the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t see this. Why, one look at the smoke in Reed Spring this morning and the EPA would outlaw wood stoves. They wouldn’t dare, my thoughts continued. A lot of these hill people were poor. And many had once tried natural gas or propane, so…