[pf] Fw. "just 3 more mpg could save drilling the Arctic Refuge."

· I've just put this item on my environmental news page:
http://members.tripod.com/~davd/APRR-010315.html#9971 :-

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9971&newsDate=2-Mar-2001
is: Americans oppose Alaska drilling - green poll
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USA: March 2, 2001

WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans oppose a Republican-backed plan to
allow oil and gas drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR), according to a survey issued on Wednesday by a green group. 

The poll showed that 52 percent of those surveyed oppose changing the law
to permit drilling in the refuge on Alaska's northern coast, while 35
percent support such an action, the Wilderness Society survey showed.
The Wilderness Society called the survey a bipartisan poll because it was
jointly conducted by the Republican pollster Bellwether Research and the
Democratic survey firm Mellman Group. The poll questioned 1,000 voters in
mid-February, and has a margin of error of three percent, the society said.

In another question, adults interviewed for the survey were given four
options for solving the nation's energy problems. The top choice, selected
by 44 percent of respondents, was to increase reliance on alternative forms
of energy.

Another 31 percent said they preferred more energy-efficiency measures such
as improved gas mileage, while 16 percent said they favored more domestic
oil and gas drilling. Six percent said Washington should ask other
countries to sell more oil to the United States, according to the poll.

"If we're serious about solving our energy problems, then let's put
American ingenuity to work," said Williams Meadows, president of the
Wilderness Society. "If our cars ran just three more miles on a gallon of
gas, we could save the amount of oil that drilling proponents hope lies
beneath the Arctic Refuge."
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sent-on by David.

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