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April 25, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

US consumers rate energy as third most important issue, ahead of jobs, mortgages, behind Iraq, health insurance

A Peter D. Hart poll concluded that 57 percent of US consumers rate energy issues as “very serious”, higher than concerns about schools, job security, the mortgage crisis or global warming, and behind only the war in Iraq and heath insurance costs as key issues this year.

51 percent of consumers said that investment in alternative energy is the best way to solve the problem, while 28 percent selected energy efficiency and 17 percent said more domestic drilling for fossil fuels.

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