“Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone pipeline "dramatically increased Americans' dependence on Russian oil.”
What PolitiFact found
The Keystone XL pipeline was never built, so Biden’s canceling it didn’t make the U.S. more reliant on Russian oil. After the U.S. placed economic sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, the U.S. began to buy more Russian oil.
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In short
Mike Pence (Former vice president) made this claim around 7 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 March 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Mike Pence has 46 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 25 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co7yBN3JHC0
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