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Juda Engelmayer stated on March 13, 2015 in interviews:

Creflo Dollar needed a $65 million Gulfstream G650 to carry thousands of pounds of food and other supplies -- as well as the Word of God -- worldwide.

By Nancy Badertscher• March 23, 2015

Bob Buckhorn stated on September 02, 2011 in in an interview on WEDU-TV:

"One international flight a day in a wide-bodied jet ... one flight daily generates $150 million a year and approximately 2,300 jobs."

By Becky Bowers• September 12, 2011

Donald Trump stated on September 17, 2017 in a tweet:

"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson• September 19, 2017

Trebor Banstetter stated on March 01, 2015 in a newspaper article:

Georgia has one of the nation’s highest jet fuel taxes.

By Nancy Badertscher• March 31, 2015

Trebor Banstetter stated on February 02, 2015 in in a statement:

A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines’ jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration."

By Nancy Badertscher• February 23, 2015

Richard Hudson stated on January 12, 2023 in a tweet:

“Joe Biden’s war on American energy caused this crisis and his only response has been to drain our strategic petroleum reserve to its lowest level since 1983.”

By Paul Specht• January 30, 2023

Eric Hovde stated on July 02, 2012 in a news release:

The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of "more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia."

By Dave Umhoefer• July 12, 2012

Bloggers stated on August 06, 2017 in Internet posts:

U.S. Sen. John McCain "was singlehandedly responsible for starting a fire on (the) USS Forrestal aircraft carrier."

By Joshua Gillin• August 7, 2017

Facebook posts stated on February 28, 2023 in an image:

"We’re just burning 300 gallons of jet fuel to de-ice this clean energy wind turbine … that needs 80 gallons of synthetic oil to operate."

By Andy Nguyen• March 16, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 29, 2025 in a town hall event:

DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals that are in jet fuel.

By Madison Czopek• May 5, 2025

Eddie Rodriguez stated on June 22, 2011 in a forum.:

Says Texas is the only state that exempts jet fuel from its state motor fuels tax.

By W. Gardner Selby• July 15, 2011

Ron Johnson stated on March 18, 2022 in Twitter:

Gas prices are high “due to the Democrats’ war on fossil fuels.”

By Laura Schulte• March 29, 2022

Bobby Scott stated on January 09, 2015 in a news release.:

President Barack Obama’s policies "have resulted in gas prices being reduced from $3.07 per gallon when he was sworn in in 2009 to $2.30 today."

By Sean Gorman• January 18, 2015

Pat Robertson stated on July 12, 2017 in an interview with President Donald Trump:

Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."

By Louis Jacobson• July 17, 2017

Rudy Giuliani stated on February 23, 2015 in an op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal':

Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."

By Steve Contorno• February 23, 2015

Jane Timken stated on April 13, 2022 in a campaign ad:

Joe Biden's spending “has sent prices skyrocketing."

By Jon Greenberg• April 20, 2022

Chris Wright stated on March 12, 2026 in an interview with Fox News:

The U.S. produces “more oil than we can consume. We’re a net oil exporter.”

By Louis Jacobson• March 13, 2026

Robert Menendez stated on March 28, 2012 in a video posted on YouTube:

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."

By Bill Wichert• April 11, 2012

Kelli Ward stated on July 03, 2016 in a campaign advertisement:

Says Sen. John McCain spent the July 4 weekend in Islamabad, Pakistan, selling "F-16s and advanced weapons to the folks who harbored Osama bin Laden."

By Anthony Cave• July 14, 2016

Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Video shows a Ukrainian fighter pilot shooting down a Russian plane.

By Madison Czopek• February 28, 2022

Ask PolitiFact: Why are gas prices going up?

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• March 9, 2022

No easy answers on reducing U.S. gas prices, despite political ads’ claims

By Tom Kertscher• June 15, 2022

Gasoline prices: Where they stand now, and why

By Louis Jacobson• October 25, 2022

Ad Watch: American Energy Alliance blames Obama for gas prices

By Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman• April 16, 2012

Not just oil: How the Strait of Hormuz blockage affects US consumers, from fertilizer to helium

By Louis Jacobson• April 6, 2026

McCain energy claim low on fuel

By Wes Allison• April 16, 2008

Russia’s economy and Western sanctions: What you need to know

By Louis Jacobson• February 25, 2022

Casey Cagle's tweet on Delta, the NRA and tax breaks. Is it legal?

By Miriam Valverde• March 1, 2018

Looming food shortages? Probably not in the US

By Jon Greenberg• April 18, 2022

Fact-checking claims on the nuclear deal with Iran

By Steve Contorno• December 6, 2013

Mailbag: Nitpickers, or 'masters of understatement'?

By Louis Jacobson• May 31, 2011

Why a possible U.S. attack on Iran could break a longstanding U.S.-Israel pattern

By Louis Jacobson• June 17, 2025

Is WikiLeaks Russia’s ‘useful idiot,’ its ‘agent of influence,’ or something else?

By John Kruzel• March 18, 2019

Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News

By PolitiFact Staff • August 24, 2023

PunditFact fact-checks the Jan. 11 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders• January 11, 2015

There’s no evidence that the Clintons were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s death

By Daniel Funke• August 12, 2019

Sorting out the truth on energy

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 3, 2008

Ask PolitiFact: What’s Ukraine’s history of trying to join NATO?

By Bill McCarthy• April 14, 2022

Fact-checking the Jan. 11 Sunday shows