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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 7-13.
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Renewable Energy ‘Doubled’?
President Barack Obama has been claiming that the United States has “doubled our use of renewable energy.” Not true. Wind and solar have doubled, but total renewable energy consumption is up by about one quarter from 2008 to 2011. Plus, since wind and solar started at such a low level, …
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Tagged energy, President Obama (42), Solar energy, wind energy
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Romney’s Economic Exaggerations
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claims that his plan would balance the federal budget in eight to 10 years. But so far, he has not made public the details on how he would be able to do that, and one neutral budget expert calls it “an unrealistic goal.” Also, Romney …
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Sept. 4-10
This week, readers sent us a few comments about our fact-checks of the Democratic and Republican conventions. We also received several thank you notes. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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Romney Gets It Backward
Mitt Romney claims the Obama administration issued an “apology for American values” after U.S. embassies were attacked. Not true. Romney refers to a statement issued before mobs attacked either in Egypt or Libya, and faults U.S. diplomats for failing to condemn actions that hadn’t yet happened. Furthermore, the word “sorry” …
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GM’s Government Sales
Q: Did the government buy 79 percent of all vehicles sold by General Motors in June? A: No, that viral rumor is false. All fleet customers combined — including rental car companies and state and local governments — accounted for less than one-third of GM’s June sales.
