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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (53881)6/17/2014 3:14:53 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 86355
 
Wharfie, such dopey market research is useless. <A new poll from Bloomberg shows that by nearly a two-to-one margin, 62 percent to 33 percent, Americans are willing to pay more for their energy to achieve reductions in carbon pollution, and a majority who plan to vote are more likely to support candidates who endorse policies to fight climate change.>

It's necessary to understand markets, but understanding doesn't come from simplistic, biased, misleading questions.

Another aspect of the silly conclusion is that if you double the taxes paid by half of Americans, there would be no tax collected because they don't pay any anyway, so of course they are happy to see taxes increased on other people to gain imagined benefits to themselves.

A more useful question would be "Are you happy to have your gasoline price doubled to reduce the average air temperature by 0.0001 degree celsius, including in winter?" But that wouldn't really get intelligent replies either. The real test is when they get the sticker shock.

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