Pew, Gallup Skew Global Warming Opinion Polls With the Phrase, "From What You've Read or Heard..."

Posted by kristopher on Thu Nov-03-11 12:18 PM
2012 ELECTION SURVEY: Congress, White House Focus On Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power Is Out Of Touch With Views Of Mainstream America

If Washington had to choose between fossil fuel/nuclear subsidies and wind/solar subsidies, "clean energy" aid would get support from three times more Americans than fossil fuel/nuclear energy subsidies. Only a bit more than one in 10 American adults (13 percent) - including just 20 percent of Republicans, 9 percent of Independents, 10 percent of Democrats, and only 24 percent of Tea Party supporters - are in favor of concentrating federal energy subsidies on the coal, nuclear power and natural gas industries. When it comes to focusing federal subsidies on wind and solar, 38 percent of all Americans are supportive -- about three times the support level for fossil fuel/nuclear subsidies. Only about one in 10 Americans (13 percent) - including just 26 percent of Tea Party supporters -- believes that "no energy source should receive federal subsidies."

• Fossil fuel subsidies are opposed by Americans on a bipartisan basis. Six in 10 Americans - including a strikingly uniform 59 percent of Republicans, 65 percent of Independents, 59 percent of Democrats, and 59 percent of Tea Party members -- oppose "federal subsidies for oil and gas, coal, natural gas and other fossil fuel companies."

• Nuclear reactor loan guarantees are opposed by Americans on a bipartisan basis. More than two out of three Americans (67 percent) - including 65 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of Independents, 68 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Tea Party backers - disagree that "taxpayers and ratepayers should provide taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power reactors in the United States through proposed tens of billions in federal loan guarantees for new reactors."

• Most Americans want the U.S. to shift federal loan guarantee support from nuclear power to wind and solar energy.About seven in 10 Americans (71 percent) - including 55 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Independents, 84 percent of Democrats, and almost half (47 percent) of Tea Party backers -- strongly or somewhat support "a shift of federal loan-guarantee support for energy away from nuclear reactors and towards clean renewable energy such as wind and solar."...

More of press release at:
http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/110311release.cfm

Download survey results here:
http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/pdfs/110311%20CSI%202012%20Energy%20Policy%20Survey%20final3.pdf

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=315870&mesg_id=315870

Amazing. Polling using questions the right hasn't been programmed for finds that most people in the US (83%) actually are convinced that climate change is real, and no one here gives a damn.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=315870&mesg_id=316109