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Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on September 2, 2009 in an editorial:
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 3, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on July 17, 2009 in the House Republicans' Web site:
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • July 20, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 in his radio show:
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2009 in a newspaper interview:
"We import more oil today than ever before."
False
By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2009 in a speech at the White House.:
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 28, 2009 in interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 2, 2009
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 20, 2009 in a press release.:
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
True
By Catharine Richert • June 25, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox:
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
False
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on June 10, 2009 in MSNBC interview.:
Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"
True
By Catharine Richert • June 11, 2009
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on May 26, 2009 in weekly Senate Republican radio address:
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 17, 2009 in a speech on the Senate Floor.:
On the propriety of budget reconciliation.
Half Flip
By Robert Farley • March 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 19, 2009 in remaks made at an electric car testing center:
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 19, 2009
James Inhofe
James Inhofe
stated on December 15, 2008 in in a news release:
Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal "his worst nightmare."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 18, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
False
By Robert Farley • October 7, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo.:
"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 1, 2008 in a radio ad.:
"Obama, Biden and their liberal allies oppose clean coal."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 1, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 6, 2008 in a radio address:
"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • September 15, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 10, 2008 in Virginia:
"Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • September 15, 2008
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