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Energy? Who cares

Submitted by Hans Nilsson on Thu, 2007-01-18 08:00.

Europeans are not worried

about energy but unemployment, crime and healthcare according to the latest poll in the European Barometer that focuses on attitudes to energy technologies.


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But when it comes to action energy efficiency improvements have won the hearts and minds of people overboth fossil and nuclear.

The  renewed disruptions in supply from the east last week shows the problem with dependency but the citizens seem prepared though the awareness has not yet transformed into knowledge. When asked what you could do the answers are mostly concentrated on simple reductions rather that technology improvements.


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