Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Dan Crenshaw
stated on February 16, 2021 a tweet

“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 26, 2021

Lara Logan
stated on February 19, 2021 a TV segment

"The reality" in Texas is that "you’re flying helicopters, using fossil fuels, to put oil on wind turbines to defrost them.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021

Students for Trump
stated on February 16, 2021 a Tweet

“Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party.”

February 23, 2021

Viral image
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post

“Monticello power plant just outside of Pittsburg TX has been closed since 2018 because of renewable energy.”

February 23, 2021

Infowars
stated on February 20, 2021 an article

“Joe Biden’s Dept. of Energy Blocked Texas from Increasing Power Ahead of Killer Storm”

By Daniel Funke • February 22, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 18, 2021 a Facebook post

Says Joe Biden didn’t act in response to the emergency in Texas.

By Samantha Putterman • February 19, 2021

Viral image
stated on February 18, 2021 a Facebook post

A Texas energy company billed a customer more than $200,000.

February 19, 2021

Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 16, 2021 a tweet

“Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”

By Amy Sherman • February 19, 2021

Viral image
stated on February 19, 2021 a Facebook post

Says Ted Cruz tweeted, “I’ll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.”

February 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post

Photo shows an ice mass hanging inside a Houston home during Texas winter storms.

February 19, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2021 an interview

"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post

“FEMA is paying for hotel rooms!!!” for Texas winter storm victims.

February 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 16, 2021 a Facebook post

"The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.”

February 18, 2021

Ted Cruz
stated on January 9, 2021 a tweet

Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

By Landon Allison, Julia Schneider • February 18, 2021

Tucker Carlson
stated on February 16, 2021 a TV segment

“Unbeknownst to most people, the Green New Deal came to Texas; the power grid in the state became totally reliant on windmills.”

February 17, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2021 a text post

Says Joe Biden planned a winter storm as "warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the jet stream."

By Daniel Funke • February 16, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 a tweet

“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021

John Kerry
stated on January 31, 2021 in an interview

Says that Hurricane Harvey “dropped more water on Houston in five days than goes over Niagara Falls in a year.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 5, 2021

Kevin Brady
stated on January 22, 2021 a tweet

Says that Biden’s ban on new federal leases will kill 120,000 Texas jobs.

By Brandon Mulder • January 29, 2021

Wayne Christian
stated on January 5, 2021 a letter

Says that the Paris Climate Accord will cost the U.S. economy "6.5 million jobs and $3 trillion in economic growth by 2040."

By Brandon Mulder • January 21, 2021

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