Each presidential election cycle the media comes around to the idea that this is the year that voters are going to punish ‘anti-environmental’ candidates. In the past (the argument goes), the American people wanted a clean environment, but didn’t consider it a high enough priority to decide an election. And like clockwork, we’re being warned this year that global warming changes everything — that a broad swath of voters is beginning to realize that life as we know it is at stake, and will vote accordingly. The only problem is these skunk-at-the-picnic polls that make it impossible to believe:
If half of all Americans are unwilling to pay anything more to combat global warming, and nearly 20 percent more are willing to spend only a small amount, how seriously do Americans view the problem? It seems that the appetite for a drastic tax increase continues to rest where it always has: with a relatively small activist minority. HT: ShopFloor
