Michigan voters say high gas prices cramp their style, favor more drilling

Mark Hornbeck and Charlie Cain / Detroit News Lansing Bureau Discouraged Michiganians, who believe the sputtering U.S. economy is worsening, say gas prices are cutting into their lifestyles and they're willing to embrace a broad array of solutions including offshore drilling to bring fuel costs down, according to a Detroit News/WXYZ-Action News poll. Seven in 10 voters said soaring fuel costs -- at $4.09 a gallon for regular this week -- are having a significant or major impact on their lives and are swaying two-thirds of residents to back offshore drilling in Florida, California and other states with ocean shorelines. Nearly half said they'd even favor drilling for oil and gas along the Great Lakes. "Offshore oil drilling is something that should be done. We should have gone into that small area of Alaska to get the oil... [read full story]