Public Opinion

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.
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Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

73% of Pennsylvanians Want NatGas to Remain Part of State Energy Mix
March 25, 2022March 25, 2022

Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the country. A new poll from Pittsburgh Works Together, a coalition of business and labor groups in Western PA, says Pennsylvanians want to keep PA at the top of the natural gas heap. A poll conducted of 600 PA voters in February finds 73% strongly or somewhat supported the idea that Pennsylvania should ensure that natural gas remains a part of the state’s energy use. That is an overwhelming majority of PA citizens who think natural gas (and natural gas drilling) should continue in the Keystone State.
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Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Poll: 85% of Americans Want U.S. to Produce More Oil & Gas
March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

Just ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech last night, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released the results of a nationwide survey. The poll results may astonish you. Given the constant drumbeat of Democrat mainstream media that fossil fuels are almost dead and the renewable nirvana future is dawning, the survey finds a completely different take on energy by the American public–both Democrats and Republicans (and Independents). The survey says the vast majority of Americans *want* more oil and gas drilling–right here at home. And that includes a majority in the Democrat Party.
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Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

PA Statewide Poll by Antis Reveals Residents Still Like Fossil Fuels
September 14, 2021September 14, 2021

The Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) is a far-left, hyper-partisan, nonprofit organization that supports liberal Democrat causes. ORVI conducted a very slanted push poll in May asking Pennsylvania residents a plethora of questions about energy. The ultimate purpose was to smear fracking and drilling for natural gas. We spotted a media story hyping some of the results of the poll stating that a “Majority of Pa. residents want fracking to end.” Far-left organization, slanted poll. What’s new, right? Except when we began to dig into the questions and answers of this slanted poll, we discovered that headline is not truthful, leaving out the real news that a majority of PA residents still support fracking.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Why is Yale U Trying to Change Name of NatGas & Who is Funding It?
August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Yale University operates a program it calls the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. A better name would be the Joseph Goebbels Program for Climate Change Brainwashing. The chief propagandists at the once-great university are desperately trying to figure out how they can turn the public against clean-burning, abundant, and cheap natural gas. The problem, it seems, is with the word “natural.” In polling research, Yalies discovered if they could force you to stop using the phrase natural gas and instead force you to call it methane, you would begin to “think right” about this evil, filthy, vile substance. One thing Yale won’t tell you is this: Where they get money to conduct this kind of “research.” Could the funding be coming from China? Or Russia? Or Iran?
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Guest Post | Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Guest Post: Biased vs Unbiased Polls in Fracking and Politics
October 21, 2020October 21, 2020

New polls arrive each day now to proclaim that Donald Trump is toast and sleepy/creepy Uncle Joe Biden is going to win big. New polls arrive just about every week to announce that Americans are suspicious of shale fracking and would, in a heartbeat, dump fossil fuels. Don’t believe either the political or fracking polls so-called mainstream media releases. Why? Because the polls themselves are constructed not to determine public opinion, but to shape it. Almost all polls today are push-polls.
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Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

Fraudulent Poll Claims 72% PA Residents Support High Carbon Tax
September 21, 2020September 21, 2020

The results of a new “push poll” aimed at brainwashing people (as opposed to an honest poll reflecting people’s actual opinions) have just been released claiming most Pennsylvania voters think a $2.36 billion tax they will pay over the next 10 years after joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is just lovely.
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Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Poll: Majority of U.S. Voters (Even Dems) Support NatGas Energy
September 14, 2020September 14, 2020

Bad news for leftists Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: A majority of registered voters in their own party support using natural gas as an energy source, according to a new independent, national poll. No wonder both Biden AND Harris are furiously backpedaling (i.e. lying) about their views on fracking. They risk losing PA, OH, and other states where fracking is a big deal.
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Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

New Poll: Slim Majority of Pennsylvania Voters Against Frack Ban
March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

In January MDN told you about a Franklin & Marshall College poll that showed 48% of Pennsylvania voters support a ban on fracking, while 39% oppose a ban (see Latest F&M Poll Shows 48% of PA Residents Favor Frack Ban). When you dig into the actual questions asked, it appears the poll may have been less than objective. Another poll of PA voters was released last week–this one by Muhlenberg College with questions more objective about fracking. The results show 42% of PA voters are against a frack ban while 38% would support a ban.
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Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

Parsley Energy CEO Calls for “Shale New Deal” Targeted at Teens
February 6, 2020February 6, 2020

Matt Gallagher

Speaking yesterday at the NAPE (North American Property Expo) Summit in Houston, Parsley Energy CEO Matt Gallagher warned that the oil and gas industry MUST do a better job of convincing today’s teenagers, Generation Z, that the O&G industry is necessary and good–not evil and rotten. How? Gallagher says by tackling three issues: perception, pollution and profits. He calls this the “Shale New Deal.” Is Gallagher on to something? Maybe!
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Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

Latest F&M Poll Shows 48% of PA Residents Favor Frack Ban
January 30, 2020January 30, 2020

A new Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) poll released today shows a befuddling result. F&M keeps tabs on a variety of political issues in the Keystone State. The latest poll’s findings on the issue of fracking raise some red flags for us. The results are mixed. The poll surveyed 628 registered voters over six days in January. It found 48% of voters support shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania, compared with 44% who oppose it. Pretty thin margin. However, 48% of those same voters favor a ban on all fracking in the state, versus 39% who oppose a ban. Can anyone say schizophrenia?
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Allegheny County | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion

PA Highlighted in New National Ad Campaign “Energy for Progress”
January 8, 2020January 8, 2020

Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute (API) launched “Energy for Progress,” a nationwide TV and digital ad campaign highlighting the natural gas and oil industry’s leadership in reducing emissions to record low levels and supporting economic and environmental progress in local communities. One of the seven local communities highlighted was Moon Township, in Allegheny County, PA. Local workers and business owners appear in broadcast videos and digital ads.
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Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Public Opinion | Statewide OH

78% of Southeast Ohio Voters Support Utica Shale Drilling
December 19, 2019December 19, 2019

The Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP), a nonprofit energy education and public outreach organization, recently commissioned a poll of Ohio voters in eight eastern counties–in the Ohio Valley area. The counties surveyed include those with the most active Utica Shale drilling in the state. The poll asked residents’ about their views on shale drilling and its related activities. Some 88% said the natural gas and oil industry is important to their community, and 78% support natural gas and oil development in the Ohio Valley area.
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Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA | Taxation

F&M Push Poll Finds Majority PA Residents Want Severance Tax
August 8, 2019August 8, 2019

One of the most liberal governors in America, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, continues his campaign to kill the Marcellus Shale by slapping a severance tax on top of an already-high impact tax. He’s now getting a little help from his lib friends at the polling unit at Franklin & Marshall College. When asked a misleading question, a recent poll of 627 PA residents found 69% of them “strongly” or “somewhat” favor Wolf’s Santa Claus promises in his “Restore PA” plan–if it’s funded by a severance tax on Marcellus Shale.
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