POLL: Energy Policy has Support But Jobs and Cost are Crucial

Support for fossil fuel plants is down, support for nuclear power is up (though with a strong not-in-my-back-yard component) and hopes are reasonably high that a new U.S. energy policy will create jobs and help address global warming

President Obama, likewise, has a 55 percent approval for handling energy policy, compared with his 46 percent approval rating on health care.

This may be, in part, because energy policy hasn’t (yet) withstood the withering debate that’s raked health care reform. But there are other reasons: Fifty-two percent of Americans think it’ll help address global warming. And by 36 percent to 15 percent they’re more apt to think it’ll create rather than take away jobs in their state.

ABC