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:
In other energy news, a Pew poll finds that a majority of Americans now want to drill in ANWR:
Hat Tip: John J. Miller
