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Some interesting polling from GEA-ISA: 55 percent of Mexicans want Congress to approve Calderón's energy plan, versus 36 percent who do not. Eighty percent of the nation approves of this Sunday's referendum in Mexico City, although 83 percent of the same group could not tell pollsters when the referendum was to be help. Interestingly, there were wide swings on the involvement of private industry depending on how the question was phrased. Forty-five percent of respondents were in favor of private businesses being owners and operators of "pipelines, installations, and equipment to support oil production," but 58 percent were in favor of allowing "businesses to build and operate refineries," and 52 percent supported allowing Pemex to "carry out contracts with private industry for the exploration and development of hydrocarbons."