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Oil Spill

Scorecard

true
0% 11 Checks
mostly true
0% 12 Checks
half true
0% 19 Checks
mostly false
0% 9 Checks
false
0% 8 Checks
Pants on Fire
0% 3 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Oil Spill

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 27, 2017 an interview in the Press-Republican newspaper in Plattsburgh
The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America."
Mostly False
Charlie Crist
stated on February 12, 2014 newspaper articles
On oil drilling off Florida’s coast
No Flip
Crossroads GPS
stated on April 10, 2012 a Web ad
Says oil "production's down where Obama's in charge."
Half-True
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
Mostly False
Rick Scott
stated on September 14, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Says the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011.
Mostly True
Adam Putnam
stated on April 19, 2011 a posting on Twitter
Says he couldn't keep a 42-inch redfish he caught because of fishing rules.
True
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 26, 2011 a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."
Pants on Fire!
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2010 an interview on CNN.
On offshore oil drilling.
No Flip

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