Americans want more clean energy and new energy policy

71 percent of Americans believe that US needs to lead in clean energy race, in terms of clean energy jobs and technologies." However, US will have tough time achieving this because China has taken convincing lead in global clean energy race, and Chinese are certainly not slowing down, in fact they are constantly increasing tempo, and US certainly has a lot of catching up to do. China is currently world's largest manufacturer of both wind turbines as well as solar panels, and accounts for more than one million clean energy jobs.

Over 56% of Americans agree the use of federal dollars to either directly support or to guarantee loans for the development of renewable energy sources, such as wind energy and solar energy. However, there are also 23% of Americans that would rather pick nuclear energy instead of renewable energy sources.

75 percent of Americans want energy policy that promotes clean power. Such policy would no doubt encourage innovation, create new jobs and make foundations for a stronger economy.

79 percent of Americans want clean energy revolution in form of orderly phasing out of fossil fuels and the phasing in of clean, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.

The worrying discovery was the fact that 71 percent of Americans have only very small degree of confidence that current elected officials in the United States will act decisively on energy issues. However, if you analyze latest political moves regarding national renewable energy policy, it is easy to see why very few Americans have trust in US officials.

These were some of the most interesting findings coming from major new survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for the nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute.

These results clearly suggest that Americans want more clean, renewable energy, and that they are not satisfied with the current US energy policy, especially with China's dominance in clean energy race.