“We have doubled our (oil) imports from Russia in the last year.”
What PolitiFact found
The most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that the U.S. increased its oil imports from Russia by about 28% in the first 11 months of 2021.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Maria Bartiromo (Fox Business Network host) made this claim around 23 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 March 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Maria Bartiromo has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20220223_000000_Jesse_Watters_Primetime/start/730.8/…
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