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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The share of people gaining access to electricity has steadily grown globally, and fossil fuels are largely responsible.
58% : And it was made from fossil fuels," read the signs.
57% : In some places, renewable energy has been able to displace fossil fuels.
54% : "The argument offered by Mr. Wright, who has been chosen by President-elect Donald J. Trump to run the Energy Department, ignores the fact that wind, solar and other renewable energy are cleaner and increasingly cheaper than fossil fuels.
54% : "But by sheathing fossil fuels in humanitarian language as a solution to global poverty, Mr. Wright has emerged as one of the right's most savvy salesmen for oil and gas.
54% : Fossil fuels remain critical to powering factories and industries needed to spur real economic prosperity, he said.
52% : "If a lot more executives in the oil and gas industry would make this argument, and make this intellectual case for the use of fossil fuels, I think the energy industry as a whole would have a lot better PR success," Mr. Peeples said.
50% : But Ian Muir, head of insights at Catalyst Energy Advisors, a consulting firm, pointed out that renewables were now cheaper than fossil fuels in most countries where people lack electricity.
48% : "It's perhaps based in the need to sell fossil fuels and shroud it in a moral framework.
46% : It recommended nations make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from crossing a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade.

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