Fact Check Posts – Page 36

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 11, 2008 a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa.:

Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.

By Dina Cappiello • March 12, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 a debate in Austin, Texas.:

"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."

By Dina Cappiello • February 22, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2008 a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.:

Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."

By Bill Adair • February 11, 2008

Mitt Romney
stated on January 28, 2008 West Palm Beach, Fla.:

"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.

By Robert Farley • January 28, 2008

Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 25, 2008 Boca Raton.:

"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."

By Tom Tobin • January 25, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 15, 2008 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."

By Dina Cappiello • January 16, 2008

Mitt Romney
stated on January 14, 2008 a TV interview on CBS.:

"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."

By John Frank • January 15, 2008

Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:

"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."

By Asjylyn Loder • January 10, 2008

Bill Richardson
stated on January 5, 2008 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."

By Asjylyn Loder • January 6, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2007 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."

By Asjylyn Loder • January 2, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 a speech in Iowa:

"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."

By Asjylyn Loder • December 31, 2007

Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 15, 2007 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."

By Amy Hollyfield • November 15, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on September 19, 2007 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."

By David Adams • October 2, 2007

Mike Gravel
stated on September 26, 2007 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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 Stratham, N.H.:

"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2007 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."

By Bill Adair • June 22, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on May 7, 2007 Detroit, Mich.:

"Both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon."

By Bill Adair • June 21, 2007

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