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Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 11, 2019 a Facebook post:
Says a photo shows a gas-powered van towing a diesel generator that is charging an electric car.  
False
By Samantha Putterman • August 23, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2019 a rally in Manchester, NH:
Says Pennsylvania chemical plant and Louisiana liquified natural gas plant "could never have happened" without his administration.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 16, 2019
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on July 25, 2019 in a TV ad:
Dan McCready backed state legislation that raised consumers "$149 million a year in higher energy costs."
Mostly False
By Elizabeth Thompson • August 8, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 11, 2019 a Facebook post:
Quotes Thomas Homer-Dixon as saying a windmill will "never generate as much energy as was invested building it."
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 12, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee:
"The noise (from windmills) causes cancer."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2019 a speech:
"When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • April 3, 2019
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 a U.S. House hearing:
"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 10, 2019 in an interview:
"We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019
Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on December 7, 2018 Speech on carbon pricing. :
"As a city, we currently use about 4 percent less electricity today than we used in 1989."
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Gribkoff • December 8, 2018
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on November 15, 2018 a tweet:
The United States "spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy R&D."
True
By Kristen Mohammadi, Lili Zecevic • December 6, 2018
Clean Virginia
Clean Virginia
stated on November 16, 2018 website post.:
"Virginians pay the 11th-highest power bills in the nation."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2018 a tweet:
Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia."
Half-True
By Kyra Haas, Louis Jacobson • November 26, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on October 13, 2018 a campaign ad:
Says Joe Manchin "supported Obama and Clinton's campaigns to kill coal jobs."
False
By Joseph Kennedy • November 5, 2018
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on August 23, 2018 a news release:
"Black lung cases are at a 25-year high."
True
By Douglas Soule • October 23, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 16, 2018 During a debate in San Antonio:
Says Beto O'Rourke "voted in favor of a $10 a barrel tax on every barrel of oil produced in the state of Texas."
Mostly False
By Johnathan Silver • October 19, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.:
"The United States is now the No. 1 energy producer in the world. That happened just recently."
Half-True
By Warren Sterling • October 4, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on September 4, 2018 a campaign ad:
Says he "beat (President Barack) Obama at the Supreme Court, saving coal jobs."
Mostly True
By Anja Martin • September 20, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 a Donald Trump rally in Charleston, W.Va.:
Says Joe Manchin "strongly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton after she said, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’"
Mostly True
By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 11, 2018 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."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • September 13, 2018
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart
stated on July 21, 2018 a debate.:
"It is only under President Trump that we have become the largest producer of oil and gas resources."  
False
By Warren Fiske • September 11, 2018
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