Majority of Americans favor carbon limit

Broad-based support

Steve Hawley, Mar 31, 09.

Fifty-nine percent of Americans favor setting limits on carbon dioxide emissions and making companies pay for their emissions, even if that may mean higher energy prices, while only 33 percent oppose it under those conditions, according to an article on Worldchanging. The results come from a Pew poll released on March 25.

Worldchanging notes that a similar poll in 2007 found that 62 percent supported a carbon cap, but support dropped to 46 percent if the carbon cap resulted in higher energy prices.

A Zogby Interactive poll released earlier in March also indicated that three-fifths of Americans support President Obama’s call for a market-based carbon cap. According to Worldchanging, “It appears that Obama’s push for strong climate and energy legislation maintains broad-based support across age, income, education, regional and ethnic groups.”