Small Businesses Favor Clean Energy In Survey

Although clean energy probably won’t be cheap and accessible for a while – just compare the process of tracking down and installing a solar panel to filling up a car’s gas tank – the majority of small business owners support it, according to a new survey.  They even support it to the point of favoring legislation.

National Clean Fuels had Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and American Viewpoint contact 802 small business owners on its behalf.  Their main finding: "Sixty-one percent of the small business owners surveyed agreed with the statement that moving the country to clean energy is a way to restart the economy and help small businesses create jobs."

Then, in terms of how small business owners felt about involving politicians, an official statement announced, "Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed think that adopting new energy policies will transform the economy and they want their businesses to be part of it."

Perhaps those numbers aren’t overwhelming, and as always, it’s necessary to consider whether the study was completely objective, but it still looks like the idea of clean energy is becoming quite popular with small firms.

Given what’s happening in the Gulf of Mexico, it seems the odds of clean energy being embraced on a national level are increasing every day, too.

Keep your fingers crossed if you’d like to see the concept catch on, then, or – we’ll be fair – if you don’t, now may be a good time to raise your objections.