Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Drill, Baby, Drill

Most Americans don't believe that our fossil fuels are warming the climate:
A recent Washington Post/ABC poll found that the percentage of Americans who think global warming is happening at all has dropped eight points in just the past year. A comprehensive Pew poll released in October was even more worrying: only 57 percent of respondents think there's evidence of warming (down from 71 percent last year), and just 36 percent think it's because of human activity (down from 47 percent). The number of people who think it's a "very serious problem" declined to just 35 percent.
36 percent. That is not enough national support to take the hard steps in policy to begin to curb our national addiction to fossil fuels, and particularly oil.  Sounds to me like we could be headed for a Republican President who wants to 'drill, baby, drill'.

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