Falling Favor For Clean Energy

According to a recent Pike Research survey consumer support for clean energy has declined significantly since 2009. Rather an unexpected response with the constant push for discovering and incorporating renewable forms of energy. The energy and environmental concepts addressed in the survey included, but were not limited to, solar energy, wind energy, biofuels, cap and trade, and carbon offsets. Respondents were asked to rate their level of support for each, as well as divulge their level of understanding for each concept. Not surprisingly solar power was viewed quite favorably by eighty percent of those questioned. Seventy-one percent of people were favorable of wind power, although there has been a drop in support for wind power in the last couple of years. Interestingly, on the flip side support for biofuels has fallen from fifty-six percent in 2009 to thirty-nine percent in 2011. Cap and trade, LEED certification, and carbon offsets and carbon credits all carry small numbers on both sides of the scale, leading one to venture a guess that a large majority of the population is still not comfortable enough with their knowledge on these concepts to give a definite yea or nay vote.