“Democrats, including President Joe Biden, “stopped domestic drilling” for oil, driving gasoline prices higher.”
What PolitiFact found
Since President Joe Biden took office, oil production has risen both on federal lands and on U.S. lands overall. Overall domestic oil production in 2021 came close to a record high.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Herschel Walker (Republican Senate candidate in Georgia) made this claim around 13 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 July 2022, 9 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Herschel Walker has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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