Harry Reid has topped the YouTube charts with this little ditty: "the one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don't see on the bottom line. That is coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick; it's global warming. It's ruining our country, it's ruining our world. We've got to stop using fossil fuel."
A Rasmussen poll released today asks: "Does relying on coal for energy make us sick?"
Only 22 percent of Americans say yes, while 52 percent say no. When the same question is posed about oil rather than coal, the results are similar: 31 percent agree with Reid, but 50 percent do not believe that relying on oil for energy makes us sick.
Rasmussen also finds:
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Democrats favor quitting fossil fuels, but 38% disagree. By contrast, Republicans reject that idea 67% to 18%. For unaffiliated voters, 50% are pro-fossil fuels, with 33% against.
In other energy news, a Pew poll finds that a majority of Americans now want to drill in ANWR:
The latest nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted June 18-29 among 2,004 adults, also finds that half of Americans now support drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, up from 42% in February.
Hat Tip: John J. Miller
