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Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson
stated on April 17, 2012 a news conference
Says the oil industry subsidies that President Barack Obama is attacking don’t exist
False
By Sabrina Eaton • May 4, 2012
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on April 26, 2012 a TV ad
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland."
False
By Becky Bowers • May 3, 2012
American Energy Alliance
American Energy Alliance
stated on March 27, 2012 a television ad
Gas prices have doubled because "Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on March 23, 2012 a campaign speech
Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia."
False
April 19, 2012
Mike Dovilla
Mike Dovilla
stated on March 13, 2012 a letter to the editor
Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant "we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump."
False
By Tom Feran • April 17, 2012
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on February 23, 2012 a speech
The Keystone oil pipeline "would employ 20,000 people in the United States."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • April 11, 2012
Lenny Curry
Lenny Curry
stated on March 4, 2012 an interview on "Political Connections"
Says Barack Obama "promised" gasoline at $2.50 a gallon.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 8, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 18, 2012 a campaign speech in Cobb County
"You can’t put a gun rack in a [Chevrolet] Volt."  
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 24, 2012
Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall
stated on February 2, 2012 a legislative hearing.
"You're supposed to throw away your shoes" if mercury from a broken CFL light bulb gets on them.
False
By Sean Gorman • February 13, 2012
Stephen Fincher
Stephen Fincher
stated on December 30, 2011 an interview with the Union City Daily Messenger
"Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon."
False
By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012
George Allen
George Allen
stated on December 7, 2011 a debate.
"Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas."  
False
By Warren Fiske • December 12, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 remarks at the Cornerstone Action Dinner in Manchester, N.H.
Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, "federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called ‘green mandates’ are not complied with quickly enough."
False
By Jake Berry • November 15, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 4, 2011 his book, "This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House"
The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • October 18, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with the 'Miami Herald.'
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 a web news story
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
June 9, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on April 26, 2011 an online column
Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will  "immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."
False
By Stephen Koff • May 4, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2011
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