Fact check: Trump energy claim misleading
Donald Trump also claimed tonight that the Biden administration “took our energy policies and destroyed them, and then they immediately went back to them”.
This claim is misleading. Under Joe Biden, the United States is actually producing more crude oil than any country ever. Trump’s record was an average of 12.3m barrels per-day in 2019. Biden set a new world record of 12.9m daily barrels in 2023.
And between the lines of Trump’s assertion was the suggestion that Biden was trying to stop fossil fuel production, which is not accurate. Biden has approved some large and controversial projects, including the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska:
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Donald Trump has made several more false or misleading claims in his convention speech, including that the United States has had the worst inflation ever while Joe Biden was in office.
During Biden’s presidency in June 2022, consumer prices rose by an annual rate of 9.1% – its highest level since 1981, but not of all time. Additionally, inflation has dropped in the two years since. In June, consumer prices rose by 3% annually:
