Claim: " projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Fact-check: U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says development of renewable energy will "get us off" foreign oil
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Alex Kuffner
Date published: 2012-01-08T00:00:00