Survey on Renewable Energy

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Results:

The purpose of my survey was to accomplish two things; to see how people thought of renewable energy and to more importantly to see how people felt when it was “in their backyard”.

My first question, simply asking if people thought favorably about renewable energy was met with 100 percent affirmative answers. Everyone that took my survey approve of energy sources such as wind, solar, and biomass.

The second question asked about solar/wind farms in people’s “backyards”. This vote was split in half. Many said simply that they were fine or in favor of having the renewable energy plants in their back yards. One person wrote that they already have one.

The other half answered that they would not want to have it in their backyard. They suggested that the farms or power plants be put in more remote, non-residential areas.

The third and fourth questions were similar asking about increase fees (for college students) or taxes for more renewable energy. Although votes were split on raised fees, raised taxes were almost 90 percent popular.

The reason for the disparity in the two questions is that with taxes they said they would pay higher taxes in order to get off fossil fuel as well as have reduced fuel costs.

The fifth question gauges the hope of the survey takers. It asks if they think that renewable energy is likely to replace up to 50 percent of the United States energy in the next 30 years.

Most people said yes. They said that it will become a necessity, one person summed up his peers comments by writing “the demand for oil is still very high, the supply for it is unfortunately becoming less therefore we have to find new/cleaner/efficient ways for energy.”

Although this is not a scientific survey, and all demographics may not be represented, the overall sentiment is hopeful.

People are willing to make sacrifices in taxes and property comfort in order to use renewable energy. People think that renewable energies will take over the future.