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Gallup Poll Shows Public Favor of Renewable Energies
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The poll reaffirms much of the “all of the above” energy plan being implemented by the Obama administration, with a stronger focus on renewable energies in comparison to past administrations.[read more]
How Do Americans View Environmental Issues?
A recently released report by VeraQuest Inc. titled “VeraGreen: A Look at American Attitudes and Behaviors on Environmental Issues,” examines how Americans view environmental issues such as global warming and the involvement of government in the private sector. The report surveyed a stratified random sample of 3,506 online...[read more]
Tracking Public Perceptions (Part 3): Electricity Price Trade-offs
In my previous posting I highlighted the importance that electricity customers place on the price they pay, and shared data that showed price-related concerns have risen to an all-time high. In my final post about CEA’s 2009 Public Attitudes research I want to focus again on price, but this time in terms of the relative importance...[read more]
Tracking Public Perceptions, Part 2: It’s All About Price
The gloomy economic headlines of the past year have coloured the views of consumers about all things financial. According to our public opinion research, it has also coloured their perceptions of, and concerns about, the price they pay for electricity. The customer’s focus on price is understandable, but it also points to the challenges...[read more]
Tracking Public Perceptions, Part 1: The Infrastructure Understanding Gap
For more than two decades CEA has been tracking the evolving views of electricity customers in Canada on a range of issues. Just like other industries, we need to know our customers and their expectations for service. Up until this year, we used telephone surveys, working with some of the leading opinion and market research firms, to...[read more]
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“"....and introduce real competition into a fuel market ...."What prevents someone from creating and selling a competitive fuel for less?Does someone need to grant permission to do so? Is not the ability to make a lot of money by creating such a fuel not adequate in itself?And are you serioulsy suggesting there are enough arable acres of ground in the US to grow all the fuel industry ...”
“It is a false argument to compare to the USA experience: their reductions are caused by the switch to gas thanks to the present abundance of shale gas.Regarding the ETS: Don't blame the hammer for being a bad screwdriver! The ETS is doing exactly what you can expect from a cap-and-trade program. It decreases carbon emission following exactly the planned trajectory, for the lowest costs possible ...”