I knew we were doing good, but I had no idea. It seems that despite the arguments of Still President Bush and the oil industry. More than three quarters of Americans believe that policymakers need to focus on new energy technologies, rather than exploring and drilling for more oil.
I’m not sure how much my Replacing Oil blog had to do with it, but this has got to be a major kick in the pants for the McCain campaign. No wonder he looks like a deflated balloon every time he gets in front of a crowd and tries to straight talk about the energy crisis.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Arctic national wildlife refuge in Alaska and the offshore waters of the outer continental shelf will remain safe from oil exploration and drilling. I don’t want to get into it here, but we all know how much regard the Bush administration has for overwhelming public opinion.
The good news is this despite an incredible amount of misinformation about biofuels especially ethanol and other alternative energy technologies. Americans still believe that replacing oil is no longer a choice. Hopefully Obama can stop promising how he’s going to “remake the world” long enough to read the Pickens Plan and form a more concrete alternative energy technology policy.
By the way the pool we are referring to was conducted by he Washington DC research firm, Belden Russonello & Stewart. you can download a PDF of the telephone survey here.
