“Over the past 5 years, natural gas costs have gone up over 200%” in the United States.”
Joe Manchin
U.S. Senator, D-W.Va.. a tweet. Claim dated 20 Sep 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Natural gas prices have spiked, but the main metrics do not show a 200% increase.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Manchin (U.S. Senator, D-W.Va.) made this claim around 20 September 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 October 2022, 28 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Manchin has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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