Three Quarters of Americans Support Investment in Clean Energy
Poll suggest changes in voter attitudes towards clean energy and global warming
According to the post-election survey, 78% believe investing in clean energy is important to revitalizing America’s economy. Of those, 50% said they strongly agree clean energy investment is vital to the nation’s economic future.
Support for clean energy investment is particularly strong among younger voters - 87% of those age 18-24 and 80% of those age 18-29 believe this type of investment is necessary to help improve the U.S. economy. While the vast majority of Democrats (96%) and independent voters (77%) view clean energy investment as a key means to boost the U.S. economy, more than half of Republican voters (58%) also said the same.
The results also indicate that most voters want their elected officials to focus on global warming - 61% said they agree their elected officials should make combating global warming a high priority, an increase from 58% of voters who said the same in 2006.
Some of the most striking findings were that the desire for a greater political emphasis on global warming has increased 10% among African American voters from 78% in 2006 and to 73% among Hispanic voters from 64% two years ago.
The results of this poll suggest the political calculus has changed somewhat. Pollster John Zogby says that clean energy has emerged as part of voter expectations for getting the economy back on track. “Support for action on global warming, already strong in the 2006 election, was even stronger in 2008, particularly among young voters that are the future electorate,” he said.
Commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation, the Zogby Interactive survey of 3,357 voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 5-6, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.7 percentage points.
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Well, no matter whats going on now, the economy is number 1, and he will be basically taking over after eight years of a drunken fraternity party
Clean energy is great as long as it doesnt include nuclear.
It’s cool to see so many people interested in renewable energy like that. And with websites that channel community interest into lower costs of installation, like http://www.1bog.org, everyone wins, even in this economic crisis!
its very good thinking for it
To preserve the enviorenment and to protect the world from Global warming clean energy is quite useful solution
One day, wind and solar might just be able to do it. But TODAY we need realistic solutions to TODAY’s problem. There is no logical reason to not pursue nuclear energy as a means to power the nation for the next century.
http://www.babeled.com/2008/07/08/debunking-the-myths-about-nuclear-power/
We definitely need to get more awareness to the benefits of clean renewable energy.
Why don’t those 78% of people put their money where their mouth is? They don’t need the federal government to invest in clean energy for them. They can do it right now on their own.
[...] more than 81 million Americans are represented. That’s great because according to Zogby, 75-percent of Americans support investment in clean energy. Of course, this is all on the heels of President-elect Barack Obama issuing a major policy [...]
I’d like to say that supporting
clean American energy
is going to be a key in the revitalization of our economy. That combined with
slowing the negative affects of global warming. So with that said,
support American oil
and energy.