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Facebook posts stated on June 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“California literally just told everyone to not charge their electric cars due to power shortage.”

By Sasha Hupka• July 2, 2021

Donald Trump stated on August 18, 2020 in a tweet:

“In California, Democrats have intentionally implemented rolling blackouts.”

By Chris Nichols• August 18, 2020

Hillary Clinton stated on June 27, 2016 in a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio:

"Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy."

By Nadia Pflaum• July 1, 2016

Greg Abbott stated on February 16, 2021 in an interview:

"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”

By Brandon Mulder• February 19, 2021

Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows an electric car charging station that uses "12 gallons of diesel fuel per hour, and it takes three hours to fully charge a car to get 200 miles. That's 36 gallons for 200 miles. 5.6 mpg."

By Andy Nguyen• July 19, 2021

Donald Trump stated on March 02, 2019 in a speech:

"When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric."

By John Kruzel• April 3, 2019

Al Gore stated on October 11, 2016 in a campaign speech:

Says electric utilities "are trying to fool you into amending your state Constitution in a way that gives them the authority to shut down net metering."

By Joshua Gillin• October 21, 2016

Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Photo of electric charging station “powered by diesel generator” is emblematic of the electric vehicle movement.

By Jeff Cercone• February 28, 2023

Marco Rubio stated on May 20, 2026 in an X post:

“The reason (people in Cuba) are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil ‘blockade’ by the US.”

By Maria Briceño, Samantha Putterman• May 22, 2026

Facebook posts stated on July 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:

General Motors “admits the 'clean' energy used to charge electric cars comes from coal, 95% coal, to be exact."

By Tom Kertscher• July 29, 2021

Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing:

"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."

By Alex Kuffner• January 8, 2012

George Packer stated on August 08, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.

By Robert Farley• August 10, 2010

Joe Biden stated on August 31, 2023 in a speech:

“Under the Obama-Biden administration, we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the state of Florida replacing wooden power poles with steel poles and we buried these electric lines."

By Amy Sherman• October 6, 2023

Donald Trump stated on September 11, 2018 in press conference:

"Puerto Rico’s electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy. It had no money. It was largely -- you know, it was largely closed."

By Manuela Tobias• September 13, 2018

Robert Ortt stated on January 20, 2023 in in a news conference:

If New York’s proposed limits on natural gas in buildings take effect, the grid today can’t handle the increased electric load.

By Jill Terreri Ramos• February 8, 2023

Facebook posts stated on February 16, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.”

By Noah Y. Kim• February 18, 2021

Facebook posts stated on May 10, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Electric vehicles are a "giant computer that can be controlled remotely from some cloud-based central grid."

By Tom Kertscher• May 27, 2023

Students for Trump stated on February 16, 2021 in a Tweet:

“Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party.”

By Noah Y. Kim• February 23, 2021

James O'Neil stated on September 01, 2013 in an appearance on "10 News Conference.":

"Wind power is the most undependable form of renewable energy."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• September 8, 2013

Lisa Blais stated on May 21, 2012 in a radio interview:

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

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• June 3, 2012

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