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Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2026 in remarks at the White House:

“We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2026

Seth Moulton
stated on March 24, 2026 in an interview on MS NOW:

"Bombing civilian power infrastructure is a war crime.”

By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 2, 2026

Tom O'Mara
stated on January 20, 2026 in an op-ed:

“New Yorkers pay 49% more than the national average for electricity.”

By Brooke Johnpier • February 13, 2026

Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 in a speech in North Carolina:

“Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2024

Morgan Luttrell
stated on January 10, 2023 in a tweet:

"Energy costs are the highest in 15 years."

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 16, 2023

Kari Lake
stated on October 12, 2022 in a press conference:

Katie Hobbs “has voted to double our gas tax.”

By Alexis Waiss • November 3, 2022

Mandela Barnes
stated on July 17, 2022 in Debate:

“We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.”

By Kelly Smits • August 9, 2022

Tim Michels
stated on June 23, 2022 in Twitter:

“My company was building the Keystone Pipeline when (President Joe) Biden canceled it.”

By Kelly Smits • July 21, 2022

Greg Abbott
stated on February 3, 2022 in a press conference:

"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity."

By Nusaiba Mizan • April 4, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2022 in a Facebook post:

U.S. imports 1% of its oil from Russia while “Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell profits are at their highest level in over 7 years.”

By Andy Nguyen • March 10, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on March 8, 2022 in a speech:

The oil industry has "9,000 permits to drill now. They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year."

By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • March 9, 2022

Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 in Facebook post:

The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks when signing climate change executive orders:

“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”

By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2021

Christi Craddick
stated on December 12, 2020 in a tweet:

Says that the oil and gas industry comprises 35% of the Texas economy.

By Brandon Mulder • December 22, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020

Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 in a press conference:

China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."

By Minh Do • December 4, 2019

Richard Ojeda
stated on August 25, 2019 in a tweet:

The United States is "#1 in oil consumption" in the world.

By Autumn Cecil, Jacqueline Kautz • October 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech:

"From 2010 to 2017, natural gas production plummeted by nearly 70 percent in New York, but it soared almost 1,000 percent in Pennsylvania."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 4, 2019

Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 in a U.S. House hearing:

"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019

Jay Inslee
stated on March 10, 2019 in in an interview:

"We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years."

By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019

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