The majority of the U.S. public interviewed, with 90 percent of the respondents, favored the expansion of solar panel farms to increase the energy production in the United States. During the survey, the second largest energy source favored by the U.S. public was wind turbine farms, with 83 percent of respondents. A large share of respondents opposed to the expansion of the energy production by increasing nuclear power plants, offshore drilling, hydraulic fracturing and coal mining, at 55, 58, 60 and 65 percent, respectively.
Public support for expanding energy production in the United States as of April 2020, by resource
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Pew Research Center. (May 23, 2020). Public support for expanding energy production in the United States as of April 2020, by resource [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/654775/public-support-for-expanding-energy-production-by-resource/
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