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Two-Thirds of Americans Give Priority To Developing Alternative Energy Over Fossil Fuels (pewresearch.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Pew Research Center: A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 65% of Americans give priority to developing alternative energy sources, compared with 27% who would emphasize expanded production of fossil fuel sources. Support for concentrating on alternative energy is up slightly since December 2014. At that time, 60% said developing alternative energy sources was the more important priority. There continue to be wide political differences on energy priorities. While a 2016 Pew Research Center survey found large majorities of Democrats and Republicans supported expanding both wind and solar energy, the new survey shows that Democrats remain far more likely than Republicans to stress that developing alternative energy should take priority over developing fossil fuel sources. About eight-in-ten (81%) Democrats and independents who lean to the Democratic Party favor developing alternative sources instead of expanding production from fossil fuel sources. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are closely divided: 45% say the more important priority should be developing alternative sources, while 44% say expanding production of oil, coal and natural gas should be given more priority. There also are differences in public priorities about energy by age. Americans under the age of 50 are especially likely to support alternative energy sources over expanding fossil fuels. About seven-in-ten (73%) of those ages 18 to 49 say developing alternative sources of energy should be the more important priority, while 22% say expanding production of fossil fuels should be the more important priority. Older adults are more divided in their views, though they also give more priority to alternatives. Among those 50 and older, 55% say alternative energy development is more important, while 34% say it's more important to expand production of fossil fuel energy sources.
"...27% who would emphasize expanded production of fossil fuel sources."
So 27% of those polled are invested in Big Oil?
Greed is the only fucking reason to favor the more expensive and dying solution.
I disagree. I think the left has been too peaceful, too moderate, and too open. If they want to win in 2020, they need to get to work now on being more violent, more extreme and more insular. (2018 is a write-off, and it would be even if they were organized properly today.)
Everyone knows that Hillary's primary win was a sham. The voters wanted Bernie, the Communist, not Hillary, the crook. But Hillary is powerless now, and Bernie probably won't run again. They need to be searching, and searching now, for someone who is like Bernie, but even more. Someone who can tear down Trump's wall. Someone who can invite in even more peasants that Americans doesn't want but desperately need. Someone who can finally drive the final stake through the greedy heart of medical progress and get us single-payer.
Finding that person is going to be difficult because the power struggle between the Clintons and the Obamas had a lot of casualties, and now the roster of rising stars in the Democrat party is pretty thin. Someone new needs to show up, ideally a prominent rioter. Obama was all talk. He talked shit about America, but he never did anything about it. The new leader needs to be a do-er, and what better way to show commitment to the cause than by smashing a Starbucks window, or looting a ghetto liquor store?
Those cover extreme and violent. The last key ingredient is insularity. Everyone needs to cut themselves off from people that don't agree with them. No talking to Americans. No listening to AM radio. No Breitbart, but that one hardly needs to be said. Their only contact with dissenting opinions should be when they beat up people trying to attend Republican rallies or conventions. Properly isolated like this, no negativity will be able to penetrate the bubble, and the next election will be a sure thing, just like 2016 was.
See that "Preview" button?
Or fracking operation? Coal power plant? Of course not, especially if you can get your lights on and your care cruising on the highway through other means. You would rather have a thousands birds ground by wind turbines per day than get lung cancer from breathing radioactive coal smog.
So why are these things next to your home? Of course, because government has forced you and only the Standing Rock tribe had the cojones to call their bullshit. Fossil fuel industry only still exists because we are spineless.