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Support for requiring each state to use a minimum amount of renewable fuels (wind, solar, and hydroelectric) to generate electricity, even if electricity prices rise, asked in the CES in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
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Latest: 61% answered “Support” in CES: Minimum renewable fuel requirement for electricity, 2022.
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 |
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| CES: Minimum renewable fuel requirement for state electricity | Minimum renewable fuel requirement for state electricity Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Require that each state use a minimum amount of renewable fuels (wind, solar, and hydroelectric) in the generation of electricity even if electricity prices increase] Caveat: State-level requirement; wording mentions prices increasing | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Require states to use minimum amount of renewable fuels | Require states to use minimum amount of renewable fuels Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Require that each state use a minimum amount of renewable fuels (wind, solar, and hydroelectric) in the generation of electricity even if electricity prices increase a little] Caveat: State-level requirement; wording text truncated, likely mentions price increase | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Minimum renewable fuel requirement for electricity | Minimum renewable fuel requirement for electricity From what you know about global climate change or global warming, which one of the following statements comes closest to your opinion? [Require that each state use a minimum amount of renewable fuels (wind, solar, and hydroelectric) in the generation of electricity even if electricity prices increase a little] Caveat: State-level requirement; prices 'increase a little'; odd lead-in wording | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |