POLL: PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR NEW ENERGY

Its probably more accurate to say that people WHO CAN AFFORD IT will pay for it. But that is preferable to having poor kids who live adjacent to freeways pay for it with their respiratory function.

People Ready To Pay More For Green Energy
May 14, 2007 (UPI)

WHO
Market survey specialists Deloitte & Touche on US electricity consumers
click to enlarge: This pump does not show health care costs incurred for unhealthy air or the costs for dealing with climate change.
WHAT
The survey found that the majority of consumers would pay more for clean energy.

WHEN
The survey resultswere released May 14.

WHERE
The survey was of national consumers.

WHY
- Consumers made their choice based on the assumption the “clean energy” would be good for the environment.
- 62% would willingly pay higher electric rates for clean coal
- 54% would pay more for alternative energy sources.
- 46% would support building a new nuclear power station within 20 miles of their communities; 48% would not.
Why NOT pay for what's good, when the cost of what's bad keeps getting higher?
QUOTES
Greg Aliff, Deloitte & Touche: "The most dramatic finding was the growing willingness of electricity consumers to pay higher costs to use fuels that are less damaging to the environment, including coal, if delivered as clean coal…"