"Poll: Despite spill, support for oil drilling high"

[Junkdrawer]

You are getting sleepy...very sleepy...

WASHINGTON - Drill, baby, drill.

Even after the recent — and highly publicized — oil spill in the Gulf Coast, that’s the overwhelming sentiment from the public, with six in 10 Americans supporting more offshore drilling, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

In addition, a majority believes that the potential economic benefits of offshore drilling outweigh its potential harm to the environment.

Those aren’t the only striking results from this survey, which was conducted after several significant and newsworthy events:

* Nearly two-thirds of Americans back Arizona’s new controversial immigration law;

* After the failed car bomb in Times Square, 58 percent of respondents say they’re worried this country will experience another terrorist attack, the highest percentage on this question in almost five years;

* And in the wake of the federal government’s fraud charges against Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, a clear majority thinks that the biggest concern about the financial reform legislation moving through Congress is that it won’t go far enough to rein in Wall Street’s perceived excesses.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37116587/ns/politics-more_politics

[FiveGoodMen]

1. File under "Why we're doomed"

[Xipe Totec]

2. They won't change their minds until they feel it in their own skin

It will take a while for the total extent of this devastation to impact their lifestyles.

[Junkdrawer]

3. One wonders who they polled....

A person in Kansas City will give a very different answer than a coastal resident.

[MissDeeds]

8. I'm not far from Kansas City

And I know how I'd vote...but of course I'm a liberal.

[Robbien]

4. I'm really hoping the WSJ cherry-picked the pool of respondents

Otherwise this country sucks.

Hard to believe that 27% of Latinos agree with the Arizona immigration law.

[WeDidIt]

5. Other than the Wall Street poll

that's some fucked up shit right there.

[Junkdrawer]

6. I'm guessing the PR industry will have full employment for some time to come...

An economic bright spot.

[amborin]

7. BP agitates for that support:

BP Worked With FreedomWorks And The Chamber To Build ‘Grassroots’ Support For More Drilling
This post originally appeared on Think Progress.



BP has long touted itself as a “green” company interested not only in oil and other fossil fuels, but in renewable energy like wind and solar. But as Rebecca Lefton reported on ThinkProgress last week, BP barely invests anything in clean energy — most of its green campaign is actually just a massive advertising gimmick to conceal the truth about the company.

While BP has spent hundreds of millions building its brand, it has offshored the dirty work of promoting expanded drilling to right-wing front groups and trade associations. In a 2007 PowerPoint presentation obtained by ThinkProgress, BP appears to have been interested in fighting to open up protected waters to new offshore drilling. The presentation, organized by the BP-funded front group “Consumer Energy Alliance,” was delivered at the American Gas Association’s marketing meeting in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The presentation calls for a five-year plan to build grassroots support to open wide swaths of both the East and West coasts to new drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf:

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Trade associations openly represent the needs of industry, so many industry groups like API have delicately tried to defend offshore drilling, but without explicitly defending the actions of BP. However, FreedomWorks portrays itself as simply a citizen-based group. In reality, FreedomWorks has a long history of orchestrating public support for its corporate and lobbyist backers. Earlier this week, FreedomWorks lashed out at criticism of BP, claiming the administration has its “boot on neck of BP” by proposing that BP should have more liability for its spill.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/06/bp-worke... /

[taterguy]

9. More than 60% of Americans use a car as primary transportation so why is this a surprise?

At least they're being consistent.

[warren pease]

10. Further proof that...

Tens of millions of Americans are so abysmally stupid that they wouldn't know up from down unless they tossed an anvil and waited to see if it broke their toes or their skulls.

At least they're getting the point about Wall St., but that's probably just an additional indicator that self-interest trumps all.


wp

[shellgame26]

11. Thank the MSM for that

I'm so sick of this idea that polls should somehow dictate public policy..kinda like putting human rights up for referendum.

Anyway..did you hear the latest on Lindsay Lohan?

nothing to see here..move along...

[seafan]

12. Mark Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

The teevee sez:

"Despite spill, support for oil drilling high"


Catapult that propaganda, boyz.



But don't come peddling that $#*% in Florida.



Florida voters now oppose offshore drilling by 55 to 35 percent., May 7, 2010



An oil soaked bird struggles against the oil slicked side of the HOS Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 9, 2010.



What we need are some miracles.

[marmar]

13. Shit like this makes me want to cross the river.....permanently