Verificado: ‘Hoje, a América tem uma produção recorde de energia e somos independentes em termos energéticos.’

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Republican candidates often criticize Democrats for throttling the U.S. energy sector or blame them for high gasoline prices. But just days before she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, stole a page from the Republican playbook and boasted about U.S. energy production during Joe Biden’s presidency.

In July 18 remarks in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Harris said, “Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.”

Harris is right about record energy production, but she’s only partly right about energy independence. By some definitions, the U.S. is energy independent, but by an important one, it’s not.

This part of Harris’s statement is accurate…

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