Energy Issues Facing the Next Administration Webinar

ACCCE Webinar October 20, 2008

The following presentation presents polling data commissioned by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and was initially presented in a Webinar on October 23, 2008

Meeting America’s Energy Demand: Critical Energy and Environmental Issues Facing the Next Administration Steve Miller – President and CEO, ACCCE

Economy Environment Energy

2009 federal energy-environment policy agenda

Climate change legislation-regulations

International climate change negotiations

Multi-pollutant legislation-regulations

Mercury regulations

New Source Review regulations

Economic stimulus thru green jobs

Energy costs

Electricity reliability-plant siting

Public Opinion Presented by Mark Allen Founder and President, American Public.us, Inc. Thomas Riehle Principal Partner, RT Strategies

Taking It to a New Level

Support for coal in the past 12 months is an inverse relationship to the S&P 500

Support from both Presidential campaigns, coupled with concerns about energy security, leads elites to consider support for clean coal technology over opposition to any use of carbon-based fuels for electricity generation.

Economic arguments surpass environmental concerns

Clean coal technology has overtaken domestic abundance as the most important reason to support the use of coal

Elites are looking for institutions that assert “we can” and are resistant to arguments that start, “We can’t...”

The comfort zone: 60% think we can sequester CO-2 and 60% think if it takes 10 years, that’s a good accomplishment

Issues facing America Which ONE of the following ISSUES is MOST important in determining your vote for president this year? * Results from October 8-9, 2008 from a poll conducted for Newsweek by PSRAI Based on Registered Voters

Handling Issues facing America – Part I Please tell me which presidential candidate you think would do a better job handling each of the following issues as President. What about (INSERT – READ AND RANDOMIZE.)? Do you think Barack Obama or John McCain would do a better job handling this issue? Based on Registered Voters * Results from October 8-9, 2008 from a poll conducted for Newsweek by PSRAI

Handling Issues facing America – Part II Please tell me which presidential candidate you think would do a better job handling each of the following issues as President. What about (INSERT – READ AND RANDOMIZE.)? Do you think Barack Obama or John McCain would do a better job handling this issue? * Results from October 8-9, 2008 from a poll conducted for Newsweek by PSRAI Based on Registered Voters

Handling Issues facing America – Part I Please tell me which presidential candidate you think would do a better job handling each of the following issues as President. What about (INSERT – READ AND RANDOMIZE.)? Do you think Barack Obama or John McCain would do a better job handling this issue? * Results from October 8-9, 2008 from a poll conducted for Newsweek by PSRAI Independents

Handling Issues facing America – Part II Please tell me which presidential candidate you think would do a better job handling each of the following issues as President. What about (INSERT – READ AND RANDOMIZE.)? Do you think Barack Obama or John McCain would do a better job handling this issue? * Results from October 8-9, 2008 from a poll conducted for Newsweek by PSRAI Independents

Security Focus, and Cost Trumps Environment If you were making energy and environmental policy decisions now, indicate how much attention you would give to each of the following aspects of the decisions by “distributing” ten chips. You can put all, some or none of the chips on each item, depending on how important that item should be in energy and environmental decisionmaking. Allocate ALL TEN chips, by distributing them as you like among the three items listed. 10 chips

Clean Coal Technology Is Most Favorable Rate your feelings toward each of the following, using a scale where 0 means not favorable at all, and 10 means very favorable. Ranked by Most Favorable

Clean Coal Balances With Abundance Whether you support the use of coal to generate electricity or not, which ONE of the following statements is the BEST argument for using coal for electricity? Best Argument

Energy Progress and Failures Rate the progress you feel we have made in the past few years on each of the following challenges, using a scale from 0 (no progress) to 10 (a great deal of progress). (RANDOMIZE ITEMS.) Ranked by “No Progress”

Time Table Confidence As you may know, clean coal technology such as scrubbers currently in use eliminate well over 90% of traditional emissions from coal-fueled power plants. How much confidence do you have that within the next ten to twenty years clean coal technology will also be able to capture and bury underground the carbon dioxide that comes from coal plants. Do you have (ROTATE, START FROM BOTTOM EVERY OTHER INTERVIEW.) a great deal, quite a bit, only some, very little, or no confidence at all that more advanced clean coal technologies will be developed in the next ten to twenty years? 60 37 When it comes to dealing with global warming, if it takes 10 more years to develop clean coal technologies that significantly reduce carbon dioxide from coal plants, would you consider that (ROTATE:) a great breakthrough in combating global warming, OR too little too late.

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