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Statements about Energy
Lisa Blais

Lisa Blais

Mostly False

It has to be built first

"We came out against Deepwater and everybody is now paying for [the project] in their electric bills."

Freedom PAC

Freedom PAC

Half-True

Murky claim ahead

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson "chose to side with President Obama" against the Keystone pipeline

Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson

False

Common word usage defines this claim

Says the oil industry subsidies that President Barack Obama is attacking don’t exist

Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Prosperity

Mostly False

American streetlights, some Chinese parts

Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as  "tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China."

Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Prosperity

False

Not tax credits, not stimulus, not to Finland

Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland."

Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Prosperity

Pants on Fire!

Nope — try loan for project in California

Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "$1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico."

Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown

Mostly True

Full speculation impact not settled

Says excessive speculation is pushing up oil prices and a recent report estimates it "adds 56 cents to every gallon of gasoline siphoned from the pump."

National Republican Congressional Committee

National Republican Congressional Committee

Mostly False

What about the price spike in 2008?

Gas prices have gone up 99 percent since Obama became president, "the highest gas price increase since Carter."

Connie Mack

Connie Mack

Pants on Fire!

In 2005 Mack called himself a “longtime opponent of drilling off Florida’s coast."

"I have always said that I would be for drilling."

Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson

Half-True

Depends on how you define 'speculators'

At the same time gas prices have increased, "the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years."

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."

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

True

The miles would encircle equator

In the past three years, "we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some."

American Energy Alliance

American Energy Alliance

False

Solyndra, Alaska, Keystone pushing up today's prices? No.

Gas prices have doubled because "Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump."

Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson

False

It would take years

Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia."

Mike Dovilla

Mike Dovilla

False

Immediately inaccurate

Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant "we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump."

Facebook posts

Facebook posts

Pants on Fire!

No proof for noxious claim

"In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."

Crossroads GPS

Crossroads GPS

Half-True

Down for a single year after oil disaster

Says oil "production's down where Obama's in charge."

Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee

Pants on Fire!

Scores of permits granted

President Obama's refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring.

Robert Menendez

Robert Menendez

True

Fueled by diesel demand

Says the United States "actually exports more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since, I think, 1949."

Johnny Isakson

Johnny Isakson

False

Jobs claim running on fumes

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

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