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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (146256)	3/5/2011 10:39:59 AM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206195

Not to worry: rasmussenreports.com Opposition To Offshore Drilling Ban Rises to 55% Friday, March 04, 2011 Email to a Friend ShareThis Advertisement Gas prices have been rising dramatically in recent days, and opposition to President Obama's continuing ban on oil drilling off the Eastern seaboard and in the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico is up from early December when the policy was first announced. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 55% of Likely U.S. Voters now oppose the president's seven-year ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in part of the Gulf and along the East coast. That's a seven-point increase from 48% three months ago. Thirty percent (30%) favor the offshore ban, down five points from the previous survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided about it. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Two-out-of-three voters (67%) now support offshore oil drilling, up from 60% in the December survey. Most voters have consistently supported offshore drilling for several years now, but this is the highest level of support since the BP leak erupted in the Gulf last April. Twenty-two percent (22%) oppose such drilling, while 11% are not sure. When the president lifted the longstanding moratorium on offshore drilling last March, 72% agreed with his decision. But he quickly reinstated it when the leak took place. Since then, support for offshore drilling has ranged from 56% to 64%. (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters nationwide was conducted on February 28-March 1, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. An overwhelming 76% of voters nationwide don’t believe the United States does enough to develop its own gas and oil resources. Only 15% think the country does do enough in this area. Highlighting America's dependence on foreign oil, separate polling finds that Americans overwhelmingly believe the current political unrest in the Arab world will make them pay a lot more at the pump. Most voters have taken notice of the recent spike in gasoline prices and believe gas is likely to top the $5 mark by the beginning of summer. Sixty-six percent (66%) of men oppose the president's ban on offshore drilling in certain areas, compared to 46% of women. Workers in the private sector oppose it more strongly than those who work for the government. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republicans and 62% of voters not affiliated with either political party disagree with the president’s seven-year offshore oil drilling ban, while a plurality (46%) of Democrats support the policy. Republicans and unaffiliateds also feel more strongly than Democrats that the United States does not do enough to develop its own oil and gas resources. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Mainstream voters believe offshore drilling should be allowed, while 53% of the Political Class oppose it. Very few voters seem aware of the man the president has chosen to lead energy policy. Just 19% have a favorable opinion of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Twenty percent (20%) have an unfavorable view of him. But 61% don’t know enough about him to venture an opinion of the Nobel Prize laureate Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters say renewable resources like solar and wind are the best long-term energy investment for America, the highest finding to date. Twenty-three percent (23%) say fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil are the better investment. Despite concerns about the price of gas, most Americans still aren’t likely to buy an electric car in the next 10 years. Additional information from this survey and a full demographic breakdown are available to Platinum Members only. Please sign up for the Rasmussen Reports daily e-mail update (it's free). Let us keep you up to date with the latest public opinion news. Survey Toplines and Crosstabs are available for Platinum Members only. ShareThis

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (146256)	3/5/2011 11:22:12 AM
From: ChanceIs	6 Recommendations Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 206195

>>>I'm convinced this government wants higher energy prices to help green technologies become more competitive.<<< What you are suggesting is certainly consistent with the facts. It isn't necessarily true. Obama has screws loose. I can't discern what he believes or holds true. He doesn't understand economics or mathematics. He certainly has a delusion of some Green utopia. Whether high energy prices is his means to realize his delusion remains to be seen. He can't grasp that there will be no America to be Green w/o low energy costs. Suffice it to say that this mechanism is being put into play. We will see just how Green we are two years out. I often wonder if he isn't consumed by some pathological hate against everything American. He certainly revels in dissing the Brits. PS: I will throw a little support behind your thesis. It is clear that all of the liberal economic talking heads have examined the chicken entrails and proclaimed that $100 oil won't hurt the US economy. We have become "robust." What a joke!!! Pass that "hopium" around. A couple more months of $100 plus will put us right back in the tank - not that we ever got out of it. I really don't understand that claim that $100 crude doesn't matter. We surely squeezed a lot of inefficiencies out of the system with $140 crude in '08. I suspect that all of the easy pickings have been had. Did we replace more than 5% of the car fleet?? I doubt it. I think that miles driven are back to the pre-recession peak. We did hit $40 crude in '08-'09. That took a lot of reform pressure off. The low NG prices will help, but again I think that fuel switching is all used up. I see the occasional NG fired bus. Nobody is talking NG fired cars anymore. Hey!!!!! What happened to the hydrogen economy. That was supposed to be on-line by now. I feel cheated and deceived. I am not too put out because cellulosic ethanol should be ready by September. Where do we get these presidents who know nothing, NOTHING, about science and engineering. I know for sure that they all continuously tout the need for more education in the sciences.

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (146256)	3/6/2011 3:04:44 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 206195

>> I'm convinced this government wants higher energy prices to help green technologies become more competitive. << In 2008 candidate Obama did see an upside to high oil prices as this old video clip shows. campaigncircus.com