Public Opinion

AI | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

New Poll: 74% of PA Voters Say “Not in My Backyard” to Data Centers
August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

Quinnipiac University released a new poll of Pennsylvania registered voters on July 15, and one question in it should worry everyone who makes a living from Marcellus gas. Asked whether they would support or oppose building an AI data center in their community, 74% of Pennsylvania voters said “oppose,” 16% said “support,” and 10% offered no opinion. That’s a jump from Quinnipiac’s February 25 poll, when the split was 68% opposed and 20% in favor. The opposition is bipartisan — 64% of Republicans, 82% of Democrats, and 77% of independents all said no thanks. Three-quarters of voters (76%) say they’re following data center news either very closely (26%) or somewhat closely (50%). And Gov. Josh Shapiro isn’t getting credit either: just 24% approve of how he’s handling data centers in Pennsylvania, while 34% disapprove and a whopping 42% have no opinion. The survey polled 895 registered voters July 9-13, with a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points. Read More “New Poll: 74% of PA Voters Say “Not in My Backyard” to Data Centers”
Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

FDU Poll Finds 64% of N.J. Voters Back New Gas-Powered Plants
October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Poll found that New Jersey voters support the construction of new natural gas power plants by a 3-to-1 margin (64% in favor), viewing them as a bridge solution to quickly lower energy prices until renewable options are ready (which will be never). Yes, in deeply blue N.J., both Republicans AND Democrats favor building more gas-fired power plants. The support is partisan, with Republicans overwhelmingly backing new construction (89%) compared to Democrats, who are less enthusiastic but still favor the plants (46% support vs. 33% oppose). Read More “FDU Poll Finds 64% of N.J. Voters Back New Gas-Powered Plants”
Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Public Opinion

Massachusetts Voters Demand More Natural Gas, Constitution Pipeline
June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

A new poll of registered Massachusetts voters shows they are fed up with the liberal policies of the Democrats running the state when it comes to the sky-high cost of energy. Natural gas prices have increased 93 percent over the last decade, while electricity costs have risen 65 percent. For many families, energy bills now consume a disproportionate share of household income. Massachusetts households paid 76.34 percent more than the U.S. average for electricity and 71.45 percent more than the national average for natural gas. The poll showed nearly 6 in 10 voters (59 percent) support building the Constitution Pipeline, which would deliver affordable natural gas from Pennsylvania to New England. Another 28 percent are neutral or have no opinion on the Constitution. Only a tiny 13 percent are against building the Constitution Pipeline. Read More “Massachusetts Voters Demand More Natural Gas, Constitution Pipeline”
Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

Fracking Issue Causing PA Working Class Voters to Shift Right
May 23, 2025May 23, 2025

According to opinion researchers at Pennsylvania’s Franklin & Marshall College, the issue of fracking has deepened the schism between Democrats and Republicans in the Keystone State. Pennsylvania’s voter registration statistics have shifted rightward (from Democrat to Republican), which has been traced to shifts in the affiliation of working-class communities, particularly those located in the northeastern and southwestern parts of the state. New research offers a more direct cause for the shift: the decline of coal mining and the rise of shale gas development. Read More “Fracking Issue Causing PA Working Class Voters to Shift Right”
Chesterfield County | Dominion Energy | Electrical Generation | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion | Statewide VA | Virginia

Poll Shows Virginia Voters Strongly Support NatGas-Fired Power
January 7, 2025January 7, 2025

Dominion Energy plans to build small “peaker” electric generating plants in Chesterfield County, VA, near Richmond (see Dominion Plans to Build 1,000-MW Gas Peaker Plant Near Richmond, VA). The Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center (CERC) calls for building four 250-megawatt gas-fired power plants (1,000 MW total) that can jump into action during the coldest and hottest days of the year to help supply enough electricity for 250,000 homes—to keep the lights on because solar and wind are not up to the task. Even though these clean gas-fired plants will replace dirty coal-fired plants, anti-fossil fuelers, flying under the banner of Friends of Chesterfield, oppose the project (see Anti-Fossil Fuelers File Appeal Against Chesterfield Power Plant). Dominion has new ammunition in its fight to build the plants. A new poll shows a majority of Virginia residents strongly favor allowing utilities to build new natural gas generation plants. Read More “Poll Shows Virginia Voters Strongly Support NatGas-Fired Power”
Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

ORVI Slanted Push Poll Finds Majority of PA Voters Support Fracking
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

You know you’re a loser when you can’t even spin the results of your own rigged push poll. The Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) is nothing more than a front group, another name for the ultra-left, biased, and virulent anti-fossil fuel Heinz Endowments. ORVI pokes its head up periodically to issue “reports” (i.e., propaganda) bashing fossil energy. Sometimes, they conduct slanted push polls to try and further pollute the news with false claims, as was the case with a recent poll (with results released yesterday) by ORVI surveying 700 Pennsylvanian voters on the topic of fracking and energy. Interestingly, the ORVI couldn’t hide the fact that 58% of those surveyed (a strong majority) are opposed to banning fracking, and 75% support the continued use of natural gas. Read More “ORVI Slanted Push Poll Finds Majority of PA Voters Support Fracking”
Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

New Poll Shows Swing State Voters Want Answers on Energy Policies
October 4, 2024October 4, 2024

A new Morning Consult/American Petroleum Institute (API) poll recently surveyed registered voters in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Inflation is a huge issue for voters in those states, with 81% to 86% saying the price of daily necessities has become “financially painful” and anywhere from 88% to 94% saying they are “concerned” about inflation. Of particular relevance for us, the vast majority of voters in those swing states said *more* domestic oil and natural gas production would lower costs. Anywhere from 80% to 87% of those surveyed support more domestic energy production over more foreign production. The poll also found that 9 in 10 voters in those states want details from presidential candidates on energy issues. Read More “New Poll Shows Swing State Voters Want Answers on Energy Policies”
Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

EPA Twitter Poll Shows 90% Think Humans DON’T Cause Global Warming
September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

Our friend Tom Shepstone, over at the Energy Security and Freedom Substack website, has a great post today about a Twitter (now called X) poll conducted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA is a big pusher of the mankind-is-causing-catastrophic-global-warming hoax. This is soooo funny. Tom noticed the EPA had published a “Climate Week Quiz” asking the following question: True or False: Humans are the dominant cause of climate change. We can’t stop laughing because 89.9% of the 15,908 votes cast (as of this morning) say FALSE. Read More “EPA Twitter Poll Shows 90% Think Humans DON’T Cause Global Warming”
Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

PA Fracking Industry has Opportunity to Defeat Biden in 2024
April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

This year’s presidential election may well turn on the results in the “swing state” of Pennsylvania. The Wall Street Journal has an intriguing story that looks at PA voters, who they support for president, and why. In the article ‘Now They’re Voting Red’: A Pennsylvania Fracking Boom Weighs on Biden’s Re-Election Chances, the WSJ says a slim majority of voters give Donald Trump a 3-point lead over Joementia if the election were held today. (How ANYONE could vote for Biden is a complete mystery to us.) “Economic churn” and Biden’s actions like his infamous LNG pause are pushing voters toward Trump in the Pittsburgh area, potentially overwhelming the Democrats’ base of college-educated workers. Could it be that pro-frackers in PA will hand the White House back to DJT?
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Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Research Survey Shows NJ Residents Strongly Prefer Natural Gas
March 28, 2024March 28, 2024

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, an extreme radical, is attempting to force the residents of his state to give up natural gas and convert to using electricity for everything (see NJ Gov Murphy Seeks to Ban NatGas for Heat, Appliances Statewide). Murphy may want to check in with those he supposedly governs. A recently conducted public opinion survey finds that an overwhelming majority of New Jersey residents prefer natural gas to heat their homes and power their appliances. A research poll from Affordable Energy for New Jersey conducted earlier this month of nearly 1,200 registered New Jersey voters revealed that 76% view natural gas as a favorable energy source. Of those surveyed, 67% also favor natural gas over electricity.
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CNG/LNG | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

New Poll Shows 58% of PA Voters Oppose Biden’s LNG Export Ban
March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

A new poll released by Axis Research and Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance (PEIA) shows 58% of Pennsylvania voters disagree with Joe Biden’s infamous “pause” on approving new LNG export permits. Here’s the astounding part: 57% of poll respondents were Democrat and Independent voters! Yes, a majority of Democrats and Independents in PA disagree with old Joe. But that’s not all. After learning more about Biden’s LNG pause, 41% of those surveyed said they were less likely to vote for Biden because of his LNG pause. Joementia is in trouble in PA.
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Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide OH | Statewide PA | Taxation

Battleground State Energy Survey Shows Americans Reject Carbon Tax
January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

The American Energy Alliance and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently sponsored a survey of 1,600 likely voters equally divided among eight “battleground” states (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio) conducted by MWR Strategies in December 2023. The total sample margin of error is 2.45%. The survey results confirm that there has been little change in sentiment and attitudes on energy and climate change. Many of the responses in the survey are either consistent with or more emphatic than what they found in previous surveys.
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Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Nationwide Poll Shows 88% Want Oil & Gas Produced in U.S.
July 21, 2023July 21, 2023

Results from a new poll conducted by Morning Consult (on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute) indicate that an overwhelming majority of voters not only support the production of more American energy but also want the economic contributions of oil and natural gas to inform energy policies in the United States. Some 90 percent of voters agree that natural gas and oil play an important role in strengthening the U.S. economy. Some 88 percent of voters believe it is important to produce natural gas and oil here in the U.S. So why is Joe Biden trying to obliterate fossil energy?
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | New York | Public Opinion | Statewide NY

Majority of New Yorkers Oppose Gov. Hochul’s NatGas Suicide Plan
February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

With liberal leftist Democrats like NY Gov. Kathy Hochul, popular opinion only matters during an election year, when getting elected (or reelected). After that, Dems like Hochul govern any darned well way they please. It doesn’t matter if a majority of the state’s residents oppose her cockamamie, screwed-up plans to commit energy suicide by banning natural gas across the entire state. She’s moving forward full-speed ahead with her energy suicide plan anyway.
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Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion | Statewide WV | West Virginia

Survey: 80% of West Virginians Support Oil and NatGas Drilling
August 22, 2022August 22, 2022

A recent survey commissioned by the Gas and Oil Association of West Virginia Inc. (GO-WV) found that 81% of West Virginians support natural gas and oil drilling in the state. That is a staggering, overwhelming majority! Nearly as many (close to 80%) favor policies that increase domestic oil and gas drilling and the completion of pipeline projects, in order to ease inflation. Some 52% of West Virginians ranked inflation as the most important issue facing the state (the top vote-getter). Although the survey results don’t mention it, we wonder how many West Virginian’s are disappointed with Sen. Manchin for his role in increasing inflation with the recent Big Green bill (aka Inflation Reduction Act) signed into law with the help of Manchin?
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Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Public Opinion

EQT Uses Biden Polling Firm to Confirm 73% of Voters Want More Pipes
July 21, 2022July 21, 2022

This is a truly brilliant move on the part of Toby Rice and those who run and manage EQT Corporation–the country’s largest natural gas producer. As you likely know (if you’re a reader of MDN), Rice has become the Apostle of Natural Gas and LNG, promoting natgas as THE solution to global warming (see EQT CEO Toby Rice Unveils Nationwide Plan to “Unleash” U.S. LNG). Here’s the brilliant part. EQT recently hired a top Democrat polling firm, Impact Research (which does polling for Joe Biden), to conduct a nationwide poll of all registered voters. The poll found that an overwhelming majority of Republicans, Independents, and yes, even Democrats, believe using natural gas will help reduce global warming.
Read More “EQT Uses Biden Polling Firm to Confirm 73% of Voters Want More Pipes”