Toplines - PA Oil Drilling - June 2, 2010

Pennsylvania Survey of 500 Likely Voters

Conducted June 2, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

1* In the long-term, will the recent Gulf Oil Spill have a devastating impact on the environment, a major impact, a modest impact, a minor impact, or will it have little lasting impact on the environment?

49% Devastating impact on the environment
32% Major impact

  9% Modest impact
  5% Minor impact
  4% It will have little lasting impact on the environment
  0% Not sure

2* Who should pay for the clean-up from the oil leak – the companies who were drilling for

oil, the government or both?

82% Companies who were drilling for oil
  2% Government

15% Both

  1% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence