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Tim Echols

Tim Echols

Half-True

Claim eclipsed by errant jobs numbers

There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia.

Jack Kingston

Jack Kingston

Half-True

Good number, wrong context

Under President Barack Obama’s watch, "oil production on federal lands has decreased 14 percent over the past year."

Johnny Isakson

Johnny Isakson

False

Jobs claim running on fumes

The Keystone oil pipeline "would employ 20,000 people in the United States."

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

False

This claim is a lemon

"You can’t put a gun rack in a [Chevrolet] Volt."  

Johnny Isakson

Johnny Isakson

True

Better reach for your wallet

"The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance."

Herman Cain

Herman Cain

False

Solar, wind potential sunnier than Cain said

The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs."

Eric Cantor

Eric Cantor

Mostly True

Cantor's oil comparison not so slippery.

Says the United States is "the Saudi Arabia of coal."

Roy Barnes

Roy Barnes

Half-True

Need a job? Barnes ad says he can help.

"I can put 10,000 people to work. Electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers -- by retrofitting all of the state buildings for energy independence or efficiency."

Stephen Kretzmann

Stephen Kretzmann

Half-True

Oil stained attack gets slippery on facts

Georgia's U.S. senators voted for legislation that would "gut clean air protections and increase oil dependence."

Georgia politicians

Georgia politicians

Mostly False

Maybe they should have called it the Kuwait of conifers

Georgia is "the Saudi Arabia of pine trees."

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson

Half-True

"Very rare"? Try "chronic."

"In fact, oil spills from tankers are far more common than the very rare leaks from rigs or pipelines."

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson

False

Marine spill claim doesn't hold water

"The last major oil spill from a drilling accident in America happened over 40 years ago in 1969."

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