Entergy Poll

A nice man who couldn't pronounce "legislature" or "nuclear" called just now. He said he was was from Communications Center, Inc. in Spokane Washington and he administered a market research study. It was a straight forward poll that really did take only about five minutes. It wasn't a push poll.

He asked me to rate a bunch of terms on a rather granular 1-100 scale of favorability, with 100 being most favorable.

Entergy 10
VT Legislature 33
Greenpeace 51
VPIRG ("V-Purge") 52
VT Yankee 10

Then he asked me to rate a bunch of phrases related to the potential re-licensing of VT Yankee "Nucular" Power Plant according to my level of agreement. This time my ratings were to be on a much less granular scale of four possible answers- Very much, somewhat not too much, not at all.

VT Yankee should be re-licensed- Not at all
VT Yankee is clean energy- Not at all
VT Yankee helps Vermont's economy- Somewhat
VT Yankee helps makes Vermont more energy independent- Not too much

Then he asked some standard questions to try to put me in a box. I'm an independent who leans more toward the "Democrat" party than the Republican party. I told him it's the Democratic party and asked how his script was written. He assured me that it was written "Democratic" and that he had just made a mistake.

So basically expect Entergy's big sell to be on the economy and on energy independence.

I am opposed to nuclear energy on principle because I don't think we have a right to tell the next 40,000 years of humanity they have to deal with radioactive waste because we the living of today say so. That's just rude.