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Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 10, 2008 in a speech in Brooklyn, N.Y.:
If the U.S. stops adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it "will lessen worldwide demand for oil" and reduce prices.
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • April 16, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 11, 2008 in a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa.:
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.
Mostly False
By Dina Cappiello • March 12, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas.:
"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."
True
By Dina Cappiello • February 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.:
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
False
By Bill Adair • February 11, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 28, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Fla.:
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 25, 2008 in Boca Raton.:
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
True
By Tom Tobin • January 25, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 15, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas:
"So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."
False
By Dina Cappiello • January 16, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 14, 2008 in a TV interview on CBS.:
"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."
True
By John Frank • January 15, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."
Mostly False
By Asjylyn Loder • January 10, 2008
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."
True
By Asjylyn Loder • January 6, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2007 in a speech in Knoxville, Iowa:
"Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts."
Half-True
By Asjylyn Loder • January 2, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 in a speech in Iowa:
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
False
By Asjylyn Loder • December 31, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas:
"Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue."
True
By Amy Hollyfield • November 15, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 19, 2007 in Florida.:
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
Half-True
By David Adams • October 2, 2007
Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel
stated on September 26, 2007 in a debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2007 in Washington, DC.:
"If we increase fuel efficiency standards to 40, 45 miles a gallon, we would have to import zero oil from the Middle East."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • June 22, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 7, 2007 in Detroit, Mich.:
"Both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • June 21, 2007
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