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Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on February 10, 2011 a news release.:
"Over the past decade, the big five oil companies --- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a total profit of nearly $1 trillion."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • April 11, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 26, 2011 a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference:
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • March 29, 2011
Jon Brien
Jon Brien
stated on March 22, 2011 a news release:
Woonsocket needs a garbage-burning power plant because "residents are paying through the nose for electricity that’s fueled by foreign oil, at prices that are skyrocketing."
Pants on Fire!
By Peter Lord • March 27, 2011
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on March 22, 2011 MSNBC's "Last Word":
"Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant."
True
By Robert Farley • March 24, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on March 3, 2011 a House committee hearing:
"Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government."
Half-True
By James McCarty • March 24, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on March 13, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 15, 2011
Fred Upton
Fred Upton
stated on March 8, 2011 a letter to fellow Members of Congress:
A bill that would halt the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would help "stop rising gas prices."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2011
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on March 4, 2011 a letter to President Barack Obama:
Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would immediately lower gasoline prices
Mostly True
By Charles Pope • March 12, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 24, 2011 a chain e-mail:
Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army "put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2011
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on February 3, 2011 a committee hearing.:
The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing "the top off the price of oil." 
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • February 14, 2011
Jamie Radtke
Jamie Radtke
stated on January 27, 2011 remarks to the Senate Tea Party caucus meeting.:
Federal Reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year.
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • February 4, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on January 18, 2011 an interview on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston":
Nevada will be "energy independent within the immediate future."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 a response to the State of the Union address:
The federal government "now tells us which light bulbs to buy."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2011
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on November 4, 2010 a letter to a Senate committee:
"New England already has access to ample supplies of natural gas."
True
By Peter Lord • January 23, 2011
Laurence Ehrhardt
Laurence Ehrhardt
stated on January 3, 2011 a commentary in The Providence Journal:
If the Stamp Farm wind turbine is built, the "health risk of 'flicker' impact created by shadows of blades of turbines poses real and significant health risks, particularly seizures."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 19, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2010 an interview on CNN.:
On offshore oil drilling.
No Flip
By Aaron Sharockman • December 3, 2010
Joe Barton
Joe Barton
stated on August 19, 2010 a speech.:
"Eighty percent of the oil we're discovering, we're discovering in the deep Gulf" of Mexico.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 28, 2010
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