“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, "I see people are rushing out to fill up their cars for this hurricane at the gas station. This wouldn’t be an issue if they had electric cars. If the power is out for a week how are they going to get gas? We need to start planning ahead and moving forward.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 4 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 4 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 September 2019, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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