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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2011 a press conference at the White House:
The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2011
Jersey Central Power & Light
Jersey Central Power & Light
stated on September 7, 2011 an advertisement:
Hurricane "Irene was the second-largest storm to hit North America in terms of power outages -- and the first hurricane to make landfall in New Jersey since 1904."  
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • September 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 7, 2011 a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library:
"The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on August 28, 2011 a newspaper column:
Says the federal government is "the largest energy user in the country."
True
By Tom Feran • September 7, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a speech at a house party in New Hampshire.:
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.
Pants on Fire!
By Gregory Trotter • September 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2011 a campaign event:
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire:
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with the 'Miami Herald.':
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011
Tom Kean
Tom Kean
stated on August 1, 2011 a question-and-answer column in The Star-Ledger:
"I built the last nuclear plant — not only in the state, but in the country."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • August 9, 2011
Fred Clark
Fred Clark
stated on July 25, 2011 a television ad:
Says Sen. Luther Olsen, his recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants "not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors" with no oversight.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 4, 2011
Nancy Nusbaum
Nancy Nusbaum
stated on July 25, 2011 a television ad:
Says Sen. Robert Cowles, her recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants "not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors" with no oversight.
Pants on Fire!
By Dave Umhoefer • August 4, 2011
Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on July 15, 2011 a statement.:
Says stores will be barred from selling 100-watt light bulbs as of 2012.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 28, 2011
Ward Armstrong
Ward Armstrong
stated on July 21, 2011 a news conference.:
On campaign contributions from electric utilities.
Full Flop
By Warren Fiske • July 25, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate:
"Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 19, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate:
"State agencies have not identified one single instance where groundwater has been damaged due to hydraulic fracking."  
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • July 14, 2011
Renewable Fuels Association
Renewable Fuels Association
stated on June 22, 2011 an advertisement in Washington, D.C., Metro stations:
Ethanol reduced gas prices by 89 cents per gallon in 2010, and if ethanol disappeared, gas prices could rise by as much as 92 percent.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Republican Party of Virginia
Republican Party of Virginia
stated on June 16, 2011 a blog post.:
Phil Puckett "voted no on sending the EPA a message that they’ve gone too far not once, but twice."
Pants on Fire!
By Wes Hester • June 24, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on June 14, 2011 a press conference.:
"We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second; Saudi Arabia is number three." 
True
By Jacob Geiger • June 17, 2011
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on June 13, 2011 an appearance on a talk show:
"It’s just crazy that the government will ... make it illegal to use the old [incandescent] bulbs."
Pants on Fire!
By Richard Salit • June 16, 2011
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