66 Percent support Keystone XL pipeline

Houston Chronicle:
Americans who have heard about the Keystone XL pipeline overwhelmingly support the proposal to carry Canadian oil across the United States to Gulf Coast refineries, according to a Pew Research poll released Thursday.
Among those who knew about the pipeline, 66 percent said the federal government should approve the project. The poll found only 23 percent opposed it.
The Obama Administration rejected TransCanada’s application to build the controversial pipeline last month, saying a February deadline did not give them enough time to study alternative routes. President Barack Obama said TransCanada was free to revamp the proposal and reapply.
While the Keystone pipeline debate might be on the forefront of the energy industry, it isn’t for the general public.
Of those polled, 37 percent hadn’t heard anything about it, and nearly 40 percent said they had only heard a little bit.
The poll found that conservative Republicans were most likely to be following the issue and most likely to support it. In that group, 83 percent had heard about the controversial pipeline, and of those, 88 percent supported it.
By comparison, 63 percent of liberal Democrats knew about the pipeline and just 30 percent of them supported it – the lowest percentage of any political or ideological group.
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This poll suggest that the Republicans are on the right side of this issue.   The anti energy left is in the minority and has little chance of changing the dynamic this year.

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