“You've got to remember, fossil fuels are your nation's largest export.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Joyce's claim doesn't stack up. By treating fossil fuels as a single category of export, Mr Joyce is making an arbitrary distinction. Fossil fuels represent a type of carbon-based energy product derived from the fossilised remnants of plants and animals. They include coal, liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and other refinery products. To state the obvious, these are all very different products. They are traded at different prices, used for different purposes a...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Barnaby Joyce (Deputy Prime Minister) made this claim around 24 August 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 21 October 2021, 58 days later. Its rating was “Doesn't stack up”.
Barnaby Joyce has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.