Climate and energy: what they said and what the record shows
What right-wing public figures said and how they voted on climate and energy, set against the record. 43 entries: 12 votes, 31 claims.
- “by the way, with all of this that we're doing, our gasoline prices are lower than when Barack Hussein Obama, our oil prices, gasoline, lower than they were…”
- “You know, when you add up the United States and Venezuela, we have 64% of the oil in the world.”
- “In fact, we had a lot of cooling and the ice is now bigger than it's ever been, for some reason. It grew a lot.”
- “But Hochul closed the nuclear power plant along the Hudson River.”
- “So, we're producing right now more oil, by double, than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. There's never been anything like that.”
- “They make it impossible for the oil companies to go. They take 92 percent of the revenues.”
- “The biggest ships in the world can take 1 million barrels. The biggest ships in the world take 1 million. We have 50 million barrels. We need 50 of the biggest…”
- “And whether it's a hybrid, which really are working really well—the combination of electric and gasoline driven—but we—you know, everybody was supposed to—by…”
- “I'd love to do it, but—and we could do it more easily if we weren't building up the strategic national reserves, which Biden emptied out before the election so…”
- “And our bills are coming way down. You probably see that.”
- “And most of them are built in China, and I give China a lot of credit. They build them, but they have very few wind farms.”
- “Gas prices have reached the lowest level in five decades.”
- “And interestingly, in New England, you probably read where for 50 years they had two whales washed up, 50 years. And last summer, they had 14 washed up.”
- “While we support fiscal responsibility and prudent efforts to streamline the tax code, we caution against the full-scale repeal of current credits, which could…”
- “Many of the investments that make this possible are enabled by current tax provisions, including some from the Inflation Reduction Act.”
- “While we support fiscal responsibility and prudent efforts to streamline the tax code, we caution against the full-scale repeal of current credits, which could…”
- “Many of the investments that make this possible are enabled by current tax provisions, including some from the Inflation Reduction Act.”
- “While I believe the partisan process used to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) created a deeply flawed bill in many respects, it did include some…”
- “The only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills, getting massive subsidies from the US government, and it's the most…”
- “As a senator, Kamala voted to impose a 100-percent ban on gas powered cars and trucks, which would kill an estimated 200,000 US auto jobs.”
- “You had gasoline at $1.87. Now, it's $5 and, by the way, going up and going up very substantially.”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “As Members of the House Republican Conference, we write to urge you to prioritize business and market certainty as you consider efforts that repeal or reform…”
- “The oil that we put into the strategic reserves, it's at the lowest level it's ever been right now, the lowest level it's ever been.”
- “And he said, "They want us to go two miles an hour, so we don't hurt the whale." But there has only been one whale hurt from a boat in the last 50 years.”
- “Now Iran is becoming rich again because China is buying and they're all buying, and we've driven the price of oil up so high, the highest in the history of…”
- “So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration, and low energy prices, to 100% full. It's called the…”
- “So I passed a regulation. I signed a regulation that give the dishwashers much more water.”
- “And the same thing with sinks, toilets, and showers. ... they put restrictors on. I got rid of that. I signed it out.”
- “They're made in China and Germany mostly; very few made here, almost none.”
- “And if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price.”
- “But you know, we have the cleanest air in the world, in the United States”
- “The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. And now, for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter…”
- “If you had a little puddle on your land—you heard this—it was considered, for purposes of that rule, a lake.”
- “We have become the largest energy producer anywhere on the face of the Earth.”
- “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records, so OK, they're at a record level.”
- “I mean, the second one hit Puerto Rico as a category 5.”
- “American hands will build this future. American energy will power this future. We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.”