Favorable to the environment as long as the bill doesn’t increase too much. Open to nuclear power and also to Russian gas, especially if these two options help save on energy costs. Because, when it comes to crunching numbers, Italian families show considerable pragmatism, even at the cost of cutting investments in the environment and renewables.
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This is the picture taken by the new Censis-Confcooperative focus “Primum vivere: the energy pragmatism of Italians” conducted on a sample of one thousand households, statistically representative of the reference universe and integrated with structural data on prices, consumption, and energy poverty processed by Censis from multiple sources (Istat, Ministry of the Environment, Oipe, and Arera).
Gardini (Confcooperative): open to all avenues to extinguish the fire in the accounts
«Italian families, after years of fluctuating bills and sometimes out-of-control price increases, have become pragmatic to the point of being unscrupulous – comments the president of Confcooperative, Maurizio Gardini -. To extinguish the fire in household accounts, they are ready to open, together, to all possible avenues: renewables, yes, but also new generation nuclear power, the return to Russian gas, and even coal».
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The yes to new generation nuclear power plants
The “defensive pragmatism” of Italians “borders on paradox,” reads the survey, according to which 82.2% of families on the peninsula want to accelerate on renewables without nuclear power, but more than half of the sample (54.5%) is still open to investments in new generation nuclear power plants when it comes to dealing with energy costs.
The opening to Russian gas
This latter aspect, for 49.7% of the interviewed sample, also justifies the reopening of Russian gas taps. Not only that. Because in an attempt to secure bills, even coal, the most “ancient” and controversial source, reappears. Support for nuclear power grows with income (60.9% among the wealthiest versus 51.2% of lower incomes), while willingness to use Russian gas and coal is more widespread precisely among families with fewer resources.
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