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Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Biden “wants to buy lithium from China for electric cars.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 22, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Comparing the price of oil and gas in June 2008 to March 2022 shows that oil companies are “price gouging.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 17, 2022
Mike Pence
stated on March 7, 2022 in an ad from Advancing American Freedom:
Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone pipeline “dramatically increased Americans’ dependence on Russian oil.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 11, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 6, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Two years ago we were “drilling our own oil for $27 a barrel.” Now, thanks to Joe Biden, we’re “paying $105 a barrel to Russia.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 10, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Gas is high because they shut down production in the U.S.” under the Biden administration.
False
By Jeff Cercone • March 9, 2022
Sean Hannity
stated on December 1, 2021 in a TV segment:
“If you look pre-COVID” under President Donald Trump, “we didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 2, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Low gas prices in Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia show that Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone Pipeline project is to blame for U.S. prices.
False
By Tom Kertscher • December 1, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 27, 2021 in post on Facebook:
Keystone Pipeline was blocked by Obama on Warren Buffett’s behalf.
False
By Becca Schimmel • November 18, 2021
X posts
stated on November 9, 2021 in a tweet:
Photos show “diesel generators” at the COP26 climate change conference.
False
By Tom Kertscher • November 10, 2021
Viral image
stated on September 16, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A wind turbine “could never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2021
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2021 in an article:
“Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth” in an “unedited 2010 TED Talk video”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • October 11, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:
General Motors “admits the ‘clean’ energy used to charge electric cars comes from coal, 95% coal, to be exact.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 29, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on June 28, 2021 in a show:
“In Texas, the power companies have automatically raised the temperature of people’s thermostats in the middle of a heatwave without their permission.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • July 9, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“California literally just told everyone to not charge their electric cars due to power shortage.”
False
By Sasha Hupka • July 2, 2021
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 7, 2021 in an op-ed:
The Biden administration “ignores the negative environmental impact created by lithium mining.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on May 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the Pentagon killed a man who invented a water-powered fuel cell for cars.
False
By Andy Nguyen • June 3, 2021
Allen West
stated on February 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Since 2006 Texas has given $19B in taxpayer subsidies to wind energy companies. Over the past 2-3 years Texas has tripled our dependence on wind energy to 23-25 percent of our energy distribution system.”
False
By Taylor Goldenstein • March 26, 2021
Dan Crenshaw
stated on February 16, 2021 in a tweet:
“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 26, 2021
Lara Logan
stated on February 19, 2021 in 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.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on February 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Oil is now $61.30 a barrel and rising drastically! On Jan. 5, it was about $25 a barrel.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • February 24, 2021
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