An alarming poll from Fox News reports that a majority of Americans still support offshore drilling, even after the disastrous April 20th oil spill still leaking thousands of barrels of crude oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the report:
"Though support for offshore drilling has dipped in the wake of the recent oil spill in the Gulf, a majority of American voters still favor increasing drilling in U.S. coastal waters, according to the latest Fox News poll.
The new poll finds 60 percent of voters favor increasing offshore drilling in U.S. coastal areas, while 33 percent oppose it. Last month, 70 percent favored it and 22 percent were opposed, and previous Fox News polls showed just over 7 voters in 10 favored increasing offshore drilling (71 percent favored it in 2008, and 72 percent in 2009)."
(See the poll results here and the summary statistics here.)
Since the oil slick the size of Delaware hasn't yet hit the Gulf coast, heart-rending images of dying otters and oil-saturated wetlands have not hit the media airwaves. Public outrage has apparently not been stoked by the abstract descriptions of looming disaster in the absence of concrete images. Even the idled fishermen have not provoked sympathy, perhaps because of their apparent business (funded by BP) in cleanup and prevention efforts.
It's a wonder what oil-company funded PR can do to a country.
Side note: Have you noticed one month after the coal mine disaster at the Upper Big Branch mine that "clean coal" commercials are nearly ubiquitous on TV? Just sayin'...
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