Jobs, Not the Bear
According to the latest Rasmussen polls:
… 56% of Americans say they are not willing to pay more in taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming.
Ouch.
… [only] 21% of Americans are willing to pay $100 more per year for cleaner energy and to counter global warming. Only 14% are willing to pay more than that amount.
…52% of all adults say it is more important to keep the cost of energy as low as possible than it is to develop clean, environmentally friendly sources of energy.
But 41% disagree and say developing cleaner, greener energy sources is the priority.
That’s a margin of 11 points – catastrophe!
Even more striking:
63% rate creating jobs as more important than taking steps to stop global warming. For 22%, stopping global warming is more important.
That’s 41 points, several times the margin of error.
…67% of Mainstream Americans say they are not willing to pay higher taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming, compared to only 17% of the Political Class.
For 57% of the Political Class taking steps to stop global warming is more important than job creation, while 71% of Mainstream America believe job creation is more important.
The political class, Democrats, that is, are quite out of touch with the needs of the common man.
As for Al Gore’s crusade, only 40% believe him, and they are “narrowly divided” over the causes….
In recent surveys, voters have been moving away from the idea that humans are to blame.
People don’t even think that the new climate bill championed by Obama will help them…
42% say it will hurt the U.S. economy.
