nearly 40 percent of voters can't identify a fossil fuel

[phantom power]

More than half of Americans cannot name one type of renewable energy and nearly 40 percent can't identify a fossil fuel, according to New York-based research organization Public Agenda.

http://energy.aol.com/2012/08/08/what-voters-don-t-know-about-energy/

[FBaggins]

1. Stunning.

Any doubt re: who most of them are voting for (if at all)?

[phantom power]

4. I no longer have to scratch my head over the state of national dialogue on energy policy.

It's like I was pining for a national discussion on calculus, imagining that most people were at least familiar with algebra, and discovering that in fact several million voters aren't aware of addition or subtraction.

[Historic NY]

2. The dumbing down of America isn't it great....

some even believe fossil fuels are renewable.

[Scuba]

3. Yet they know to the nickle what a Kardashian wedding costs.

[get the red out]

5. Sad

But then ignorance is necessary to keep the Republican Party's lies about climate change alive.

[lastlib]

6. A poll a few years ago found that ~80% couldn't name....

...the freedoms listed in the First Amendment of the Constitution--but over 80% could name all of The Simpsons.

And we wonder why our country is in the shape it's in....

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