Few Taiwanese have ever given any thought to issues like conserving energy. So now, as the debate over the government's cancellation of the nuclear plant rages, attention remains focused on the question of its economic effects, as if disinvestment by Taiwan firms or the falling stock market were caused by this one nuclear plant decision. As the new government has taken the blame, its popularity in public opinion polls has been falling.
除了極少數的環保社運人士，台灣的民眾鮮少會自節約能源、替代能源方向去思考，所以核四爭議一起，焦點便成為經濟成敗關鍵之爭，似乎企業出走、股票下跌都因核四而起，也使得新政府動輒得咎，民調直直落，八十九年十一月中出爐的施政成績單差點不及格。