Nearly three in four Americans favor increased offshore drilling
Okay, help me out here. Are people really this stupid? Is there anyone out there is who so very dense that they do not understand that increasing offshore drilling, and drilling the ANWR, will increase the price of gasoline at the pump?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With the U.S. economy mired in a slump, Americans still believe saving the environment is more important than fixing the economy, according to a new poll released Thursday. But consumers are more closely divided on the issue than they have been in the past.(...)
Still, 73% of the more than 1,000 Americans surveyed from June 26 to 29 said they favored an expansion of offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in protected U.S. waters, even though many environmental advocacy groups have deemed offshore drilling as hazardous to the environment.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/03/news/economy/environment_economy/index.htm?cnn=yes
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With the U.S. economy mired in a slump, Americans still believe saving the environment is more important than fixing the economy, according to a new poll released Thursday. But consumers are more closely divided on the issue than they have been in the past.(...)
Still, 73% of the more than 1,000 Americans surveyed from June 26 to 29 said they favored an expansion of offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in protected U.S. waters, even though many environmental advocacy groups have deemed offshore drilling as hazardous to the environment.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/03/news/economy/environment_economy/index.htm?cnn=yes