How important an issue to you is energy security in choosing who you vote for?
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While I am glad that there are so many people (currently 52%) who would list energy security as in their top 2 or 3 most important issues, I am worried that almost 40% of those polled list it as in the bottom 10 on their list. How can you justify that kind of neglicence in policy-making? I think we need to rethink our priorities in this country. 
Just because you think that this should be a number one (or 2 or 3...) priority, does not mean everyone has to agree with you. There are plenty of other issues to be concerned with, some are more important to the immediate state of the country. Do some more research and learn about them. Maybe your views will change.
Wow! Seems to be getting pretty fiesty in here! I understand this is sort of a personal issue, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Play nice now! :)
We wouldn't need enery security if we weren't bogged down in Iraq and suffering through a recession. Energy security is important but we cannot allow global warming and renewable energy to distract us from the larger issues like warfare and the economy.
I agree that energy should be an "important" issue in the upcoming elections. It's affecting everyone from individuals at the pump, to businesses that rely on gas/transit to run their businesses (look at the airline industry). But...I don't know if it needs to be top 2 or 3. There are a slew of other very pointed issues that are going to be discussed in this year's Elections (healthcare, Iraq, etc).
Government at all levels should back away from granting subsidies to various efforts to promote different forms of energy and let the market sort things out, much the way the market sorted things out in the early 1900s concerning the hundreds of car and truck manufacturers that existed then.
I hope that by energy security BP/The Atlantic is aiming at significant investments in non-carbon fuels and in efficiency! Energy security to me means not relying on petro-dictators, but also not having to see massive costal flooding, major crop disturbances, etc of unchecked global climate change. The sorts of disturbances to major population centers (US and worldwide) and the changes in food security that even mid-line warming projections forsee are a SERIOUS threat to global security.
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I can't believe that even one person in this country can bring themselves to say energy policy is not an important issue in the upcoming election.
Disgusting.
Posted by Jane | June 24, 2008 11:56 AM