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To: Sully- who wrote (80318)	6/16/2010 2:06:57 PM
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Americans Not Inclined To Pay More To Fight Global Warming Rasmussen Reports Democratic Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman declared yesterday that a new EPA study shows their new global warming legislation won't cost Americans much after all. But so far most Americans don't show an inclination to pay anything for such legislation. "There'll be some people who will want to demagogue that politically, but that's less than $1 a day," The Politico quoted Lieberman saying at a press conference yesterday. "Is the American household willing to pay less than $1 so we don't have to buy oil from foreign countries, so we can create millions of new jobs, so we can clean up our environment? I think the answer is going to be yes." Our surveying suggests, however, that the answer is no. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Americans say they are not willing to pay more in taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming, according to a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey last August. ..... Twenty-two percent (22%) of adults are willing to pay $100 more a year. Just 10% are willing to pay more than that. That can't be reassuring to Kerry and Liberman who, according to The Politico, "found many reasons to gloat after getting the 74-page study that showed the overall costs from their legislation's major global warming provisions would cost an average household between $80 to $150 per year." Since the August 2009 survey, Americans have become a bit less concerned about global warming, too. Interestingly, President Obama didn't pick up on the supposed low cost of the Kerry-Lieberman legislation and promote it during his Oval Office address on energy policy last night. .... .