Most Americans support increasing U.S. natural gas production in order to export more of the fossil fuel to gas-starved Europe, a new poll from the Pew Research Center showed on Thursday. According to a recent poll, 61% of Americans said they would be in favor of such a fossil fuel expansion for the purposes of exporting large amounts of natural gas to European countries. This is in contrast to 37% of respondents who said they would oppose such an expansion. In the poll, 70% of Republicans or those who lean Republican said they would support natural gas expansion in the United States, while a smaller percentage—55%, ... (full story)