American public a bunch of crazy socialists

Michael Tomasky
The Guardian

Fascinating new poll I spotted via Greg Sargent shows that the American people are evidently a bunch of nutty left-wingers. Except for the predictable minority who aren't.

The poll is from Gallup on what people think would constitute sensible energy/environmental policies. Now, to start with, it does turn out that 66% people still support offshore drilling but they are basically evenly divided between those who want to do more exploration for new wells and those who want to keep extant operations going but that's it. Only 22% want to ban it all.

So far so reasonable. Now is where we get into the communistic part:

• Do you want to require utilities to expand renewables? Yes 87, No 9.
• Do you want tougher efficiency standards? Yes 78, No 17.
• Do you want limits on CO2? Yes 66, No 29.
• Do you want more oil, coal and gas exploration? Yes 68, No 26.
• Do you want more nuclear power? Yes 50, No 42.

(More here.)