“Says Joe Biden’s order stopping the Keystone pipeline “made oil more expensive for us to use.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 28 Jan 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Oil prices are largely determined by world markets. Most of the oil to be carried by the pipeline would have been exported.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 28 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 February 2021, 18 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/RZ01m
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