18 October 2010

Recent updates and maybe some new questions?

I have found some interesting new information regarding my topic of renewable energy this semester. I love looking at how people tend to be skeptical of the idea and maybe don't see the full potential of it's capability. There were two telephone polls taken by the Pew Research Center that show something I have yet to see. They asked 1,010 people who were reached with both landlines and cell lines, whether or not they would favor, oppose, or refused or didn't know, on a comprehensive energy bill in congress, demanding tougher efficiency standards for buildings and major appliances. 78% favored that, with 17% opposing, and 5% didn't know or refused introducing the bill. 

Now usually this being conducted as a telephone poll there would be all sorts of factors that you could apply in order to interpret the poll with bias factors. But what I found so interesting that another poll consisting of the same nature in topic as the previous one, was conducted by the Pew Research Center ten days later on June 24, 2010, yields eerily similar results. This poll was done with 1,802 people from landlines and cell phone lines, asking them to respond with whether they oppose or favor the government requiring that new homes and buildings meet higher efficiency standards. 78% said they would favor this, 18% said they would oppose, and 3% refused or didn't know. These numbers are almost identical to the previous poll results. They both showed 78% favored the idea of the government doing something to implement sources of sustainable, or renewable energy in two polls done ten days apart.

Now what does this say? Are we to mobilize and demand their be more government action with renewable energy implementation in society? Do we propose a constitutional amendment to the Constitution about renewable energy ONLY to be used in society? 

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