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GSS question with identical wording and scale asking about requiring car makers to build vehicles that use less gasoline, asked in 2006 and 2010.
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Latest: 56% answered “Strongly favor” in GSS: Require carmakers to build more fuel-efficient cars, 2010.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Require carmakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles | Require carmakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles How much do you favor or oppose requiring car makers to make cars and trucks that use less gasoline? Do you strongly favor, favor, neither favor nor oppose, oppose, or strongly oppose such a requirement? Caveat: Same wording and scale; asked only in select years (2006, 2010) | identical | Strongly favor → Strongly favor; Favor → Favor; Neither favor nor oppose → Neither favor nor oppose; Oppose → Oppose; Strongly oppose → Strongly oppose |
| GSS: Require carmakers to build more fuel-efficient cars | Require carmakers to build more fuel-efficient cars How much do you favor or oppose requiring car makers to make cars and trucks that use less gasoline? Do you strongly favor, favor, neither favor nor oppose, oppose, or strongly oppose such a requirement? Caveat: Same wording and scale; asked only in select years (2006, 2010) | identical | Strongly favor → Strongly favor; Favor → Favor; Neither favor nor oppose → Neither favor nor oppose; Oppose → Oppose; Strongly oppose → Strongly oppose |