According to a New York Times/CBS News Poll 85 percent of adults polled would oppose an increase in the federal gasoline tax, but "[f]ifty-nine percent were in favor if the result was less gasoline consumption and less global warming." Americans Are Cautiously Open to Gas Tax Rise, Poll Shows, NYT, Feb. 28, 2006.

During the past three years there has been a "substantial increase in people’s willingness to spend their own money to do something about [global warming]. In 2003, people were willing to pay on average $14 more per month on their electricity bill to "solve" global warming. In 2006 they agreed to pay $21 more per month–a 50 percent increase in their willingness to pay." MIT Survey: Climate Change Tops American’s Environmental Concerns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 31, 2006 press release available at  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/miot-msc103106.php.

For a compilation of survey results on global warming issues, see Climate Change Fact Sheet, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, April 2006.