70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes

Re:70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes by LurkingPenguin on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:22AM (#28985909)

Since this survey was conducted at the behest of an interested party (a "leading full-service residential solar provider"), it's worth looking at what was asked. Here's the question:

> How much do you oppose or support a nationwide solar mandate?

32% expressed "strong" support for the mandate, while 38% expressed that they "somewhat" support a mandate.

Notably absent in the question: how much such a mandate would cost and who would pay for it.

I'm sure if a group that opposed solar mandates asked "A nationwide solar mandate is estimated to increase the cost of a new home by $xx,xxx. How much do you oppose or support such a mandate?" they'd get different results.

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Re:70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes by loonster on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:26AM (#28986215)

Plenty of ways to get a biased survey. Some of them will be hard to notice.

- Make it very long so only people interested in the topic will stay on.

- Make some questions extremely biased so people not of that persuasion will hang up.

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