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Breathe easy oil and gas. Millennials don’t vote.
http://eaglefordtexas.com/news/id/138872/breathe-easy-oil-gas-millennials-dont-vote/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Breathe easy oil and gas. Millennials don’t vote.[/font]
Zachary Toliver | Shale Plays Media
[font size=3]Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past three months, political ads have consistently bombarded every media outlet of your daily lives. With reason however, the upcoming election tomorrow could have drastic impacts on the U.S. Senate and governor control in a few states, including Texas. Also, there’s no denying that there are some big energy-related votes coming up for many other oil and gas states such as North Dakota and Colorado.
The races around energy are so intense that both sides are throwing infinite amounts of money and man power to tackle their competitors. Even the American Petroleum Institute, the largest American organization representing the oil and gas industry has flown people all the way from Texas and beyond to help stomp out support for a conservation amendment in North Dakota. In Denton, Texas, many people and high ranking officials, such as Texas Railroad Commissioner David Porter, are claiming the anti-fracking measure is being funded by Russian special interests to slow down American Shale revolution.
In comes millennials, who according to a poll released last week by the University of Texas at Austin, are far more likely to vote in favor of a candidate that support cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy. Over 60 percent of the younger respondents under the age of 35 claimed they wanted a candidate to expand incentives for renewable energy and wanted them to push for legislation requiring utility companies to draw a certain percentage of power from renewables.
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A national poll conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics which surveyed America’s 18- to 29- year-olds found that less than one-in-four (23 percent) young Americans say they will “definitely be voting” in November. In addition, out of the young folks who would be most likely to vote, those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012(44 percent), were more likely to claim they were “definitely voting” in the up-coming midterm elections versus the Obama supporters, 44 percent to 35 percent respectively.
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Zachary Toliver | Shale Plays Media
[font size=3]Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past three months, political ads have consistently bombarded every media outlet of your daily lives. With reason however, the upcoming election tomorrow could have drastic impacts on the U.S. Senate and governor control in a few states, including Texas. Also, there’s no denying that there are some big energy-related votes coming up for many other oil and gas states such as North Dakota and Colorado.
The races around energy are so intense that both sides are throwing infinite amounts of money and man power to tackle their competitors. Even the American Petroleum Institute, the largest American organization representing the oil and gas industry has flown people all the way from Texas and beyond to help stomp out support for a conservation amendment in North Dakota. In Denton, Texas, many people and high ranking officials, such as Texas Railroad Commissioner David Porter, are claiming the anti-fracking measure is being funded by Russian special interests to slow down American Shale revolution.
In comes millennials, who according to a poll released last week by the University of Texas at Austin, are far more likely to vote in favor of a candidate that support cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy. Over 60 percent of the younger respondents under the age of 35 claimed they wanted a candidate to expand incentives for renewable energy and wanted them to push for legislation requiring utility companies to draw a certain percentage of power from renewables.
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A national poll conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics which surveyed America’s 18- to 29- year-olds found that less than one-in-four (23 percent) young Americans say they will “definitely be voting” in November. In addition, out of the young folks who would be most likely to vote, those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012(44 percent), were more likely to claim they were “definitely voting” in the up-coming midterm elections versus the Obama supporters, 44 percent to 35 percent respectively.
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