“We will frack, frack, frack and drill, baby, drill. ... I will cut your energy prices in half within 12 months.”
What FactCheck.org found
Increasing oil and gas supply could bring down prices in the short term, if demand remains the same, but there are several complicating factors to that. Experts didn’t see a way for Trump to lower energy bills by 50%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former President of the United States) made this claim around 18 October 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2024, 10 days later. Its rating was “Experts Doubt That”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.