New Survey Shows Overwhelming Support for Renewable Energy

[jpak]

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0308-05.htm

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There is nearly unanimous support for a national goal of having 25% of our domestic energy needs met by renewable resources by the year 2025. Ninety-eight percent of voters see this goal as important for the country, and three out of four (74%) feel that it is "very important." Ninety percent of voters believe this goal is achievable.


* Similar majorities support government action to encourage greater use of renewable energy. Eighty-eight percent of voters favor financial incentives, and 92% support minimum government standards for the use of renewable energy by the private sector.


* Nearly all voters (98%) say the costs, such as the cost of research and development and the cost of building new renewable energy production facilities, would be worth it to move us toward the 25x'25 goal.


* Voters consider energy to be an important issue facing the country, rating it similarly with health care, terrorism and national security, and education, and ahead of taxes and the war in Iraq. Half (50%) of voters believe America is headed for an energy crisis in the future, and 35% believe the country already is facing a crisis.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. They must have over-sampled Dems & greens.

America depends on a hegemony of oil. This is unpatriotic nonsense. We are on the way to conquering the Middle East and opening ANWR. Africa & South America are next. Green technology is a distraction from America's manifest destiny.

[JohnWxy]

2. WOW, despite the best laid plans of Republican and Oil industry

disinformation machines!! I think IRaq and the 2005 hurricane season has just been too much for the disinformation machines of the oil industry power center and the REupublican power brokers to handle.