Posted on 07/04/2008 11:56:59 PM PDT by neverdem
Americans still say protection should be a priority over the economy, but nearly three in four favor offshore drilling.
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.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research poll, 49% of Americans say protection of the environment should be given priority, even at the risk of curbing economic growth. That compares to 44% of those surveyed who said the economy is the top priority, and the government should focus on economic growth even at the expense of the environment.
But environmental advocacy groups say the government may not have to make that choice.
"It's a false dichotomy," said Carroll Muffett, deputy campaigns director at Greenpeace. "In truth, what is truly good for the environment is what is truly good for the economy, because a shift to better energy solutions would create jobs."
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.
Though most U.S. oil production comes from offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, the government has imposed a...
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Furthermore, an increase in offshore drilling may be good for the economy.
"Revenues from oil and gas activities are the second largest revenue generator for the United States behind taxes," said Landry. "An expansion of offshore drilling would create high paying jobs for construction workers in the development phase and oil drillers when the platforms are ready to be used."
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Much like Carroll Muffett's statement, the Democrats are a false dichotomoy. In truth, getting rid of them will create jobs.
Like minds!
I was just thinking abut starting a thread on whether or not we should stop asking the Marxists for permission to drill and just let them self-destruct.
If there was not so much at stake I would vote to do just that but my business is already down 50% and many others are even worse off than I am.
Let there be no doubt however who is responsible for high oil prices and what their agenda is. It's the dirty dems and the agenda is to destroy capitalism, democracy and create a Marxian state of cradle to grave dependent idiots like they are doing in the rat party.
I see the evnviro wackos simply as pawns of the DNC/Democrap party and DBM. Both use the mighty power of billions of enviro dollars to buy lawyers that have blocked drilling, nukes, refineries, and any form of energy that they don't happen to support in the name of the environment when it really is in the name of Marxian socialism.
Let's don't be fooled in to thinking these are nice little passive bird loving people or are anything else but what they truly are power mongers of the worst kind. Maxine Waters types ready to nationalize everything in a heartbeat if they just get the nod.
We are playing with fire whenever these bozos are in power. Their goal is to tear down what we the entrepreneurial types have built up and establish a socialistic land where govt. rules everything and everyone is under their thumb.
They are a scary bunch and I for one oppose every move they make.
Assume for argument’s sake that Gull Island oil represents a cabal. We are importing gasoline as it is. Where would the oil from Gull Island be refined?
This is not the energy policy I knew. . . HEH HEH
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