Impact of the fuel shortage on public attitudes toward environmental protection: follow-up survey of national opinion about environmental problems and their solution. Volume I
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7363654
In spite of the fuel shortage, people - particularly in metropolitan areas - would prefer to cope with the energy problem by reducing consumption and increasing fuel supplies rather than by relaxing air pollution standards. Interviews conducted to assess people's attitudes about meeting the fuel shortages through relaxation of environmental quality standards indicate that even the people most affected by the shortage still prefer clean air. To reduce consumption, the most popular methods were improving public transportation, lowering speed limits on highways, and driving smaller cars. The least popular solutions were higher fuel prices and rationing. To increase the supply of energy, the most popular steps were building the Alaskan pipeline and more atomic energy plants; least popular was increased strip mining of coal. Responses to removing antipollution devices, burning less clean fuels, slowing the time table for automobile pollution standards, relaxing factory controls, and allowing clean air areas to deteriorate showed no change over a survey taken before the shortage. (DCK)
- Research Organization:
- Viladas (J.M.) Co., Greenwich, Conn. (USA); J. M. Viladas Company, 12 Havemeyer Place, Greenwich, CT 06830
- OSTI ID:
- 7363654
- Report Number(s):
- PB-244933
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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