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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 14, 2012 in a campaign speech:
Claims Joe Biden said "coal is more dangerous than terrorists." 
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • August 17, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 18, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Stimulus dollars paid for "windmills from China."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2012
stated on July 2, 2012 in a news release:
The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of "more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • July 12, 2012
Lisa Blais
Lisa Blais
stated on May 21, 2012 in a radio interview:
"We came out against Deepwater and everybody is now paying for [the project] in their electric bills."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 3, 2012
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on April 26, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as  "tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • May 3, 2012
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on April 20, 2012 in a news release.:
Gas prices have gone up 99 percent since Obama became president, "the highest gas price increase since Carter."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • April 29, 2012
Lars Larson
Lars Larson
stated on March 20, 2012 in an online post:
"Every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds, your chances of dying are going to go up by about 5 percent. Peel three hundred pounds off – you’re 15 percent more likely to die in that car."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • March 29, 2012
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on February 15, 2012 in s speech.:
"And the revenue generated by drilling off Virginia’s coast? $40 million over 10 years."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • March 23, 2012
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on March 8, 2012 in an email blast.:
Says gas costs $4.50 a gallon.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 22, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 22, 2012 in a televised address:
One estimate says there may be "three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2012
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
stated on December 16, 2011 in appearance on Fox Business Channel’s “Varney & Co.”:
New energy standards will take away "our freedom of choice and selection in the light bulbs we have in our homes."
Mostly False
By Bartholomew Sullivan • January 13, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing:
"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • January 8, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate:
"In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill, Molly Moorhead • December 16, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on November 16, 2011 in an editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph:
"We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • December 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 in a press conference:
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on November 16, 2011 in a television commercial:
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown "voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • December 6, 2011
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on November 2, 2011 in a TV ad:
"(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the path to bankruptcy."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • November 15, 2011
Fred Clark
Fred Clark
stated on July 25, 2011 in 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
Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on July 15, 2011 in 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
Renewable Fuels Association
Renewable Fuels Association
stated on June 22, 2011 in 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
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