“Oil is now $61.30 a barrel and rising drastically! On Jan. 5, it was about $25 a barrel.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 19 Feb 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Neither of the two primary benchmarks for crude oil have been in the $25 per barrel range since May 2020. Both were roughly in the $61 range at the time of the Facebook post. But that’s up from about $50, not $25.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 February 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/rHl4Y
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