A clear majority - 51 per cent - of the 490 respondents to our last poll of 2014 thought that low carbon energy technologies were so important that they should be protected from the effects of a low oil price by government intervention to prop up investment. However, 34 per cent thought that oil prices were so volatile rhast there was no need for intervention;any dip would inevitably be temporary. A small proportion, 8 prer cent, thought that the benefits of a low oil price would outweigh any problems, while 3 per cent thought that if oil prices fell, it would be right that investment in fossil-fuel alternatives should follow suit. Another 3 per cent declined to pick an option.
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