If you’re a firm believer in the U.S. being a democracy, one of the most perplexing issues for you might be the fact that:
U.S citizens strongly support clean energy such as solar and wind and strongly support pulling the plug on subsidies to the fossil fuel industry,
but U.S. politicians (mostly, but not entirely, on one side of the aisle) strongly support subsidies to the fossil fuel industry but not to the clean energy industry.
The fact of the matter is, though, politicians respond to money more than to voters, and they (especially those on one side of the aisle) receive a lot more money from the rich fossil fuel industry than the nascent clean energy industry. Do U.S. citizens notice and care?
Apparently, yes.
A poll released yesterday by by The University of Texas at Austin found: