{"id":4507,"date":"2012-02-10T10:13:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2012-12-20T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:51:07","slug":"rick-santorum-loves-fracking-and-drilling-hates-federal-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/10\/rick-santorum-loves-fracking-and-drilling-hates-federal-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum Loves Fracking and Drilling, Hates Federal Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4508\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/santorum.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4508\" title=\"Republican Candidate Rick Santorum Campaigns After Winning Three States\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/santorum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/santorum.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/santorum-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tom Pennington \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>The Republican presidential hopeful was in Oklahoma City yesterday and spoke to about 1,200 mostly conservative audience members at a crowded hotel convention center.<\/p><p>The former two-term Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania told the crowd that hydraulic fracturing \u2014 which has been used in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas for since the 1950s \u2014 is \u201cthe new boogeyman,\u201d <em>The Oklahoman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/rick-santorum-draws-crowd-in-oklahoma-city\/article\/3647488\/?page=1\">reports<\/a>.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Santorum said environmental concerns are unfounded about the method of water, sand and some chemical additives being pumped into the well at high pressure to free gas from the rock, the paper reports.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Santorum\u2019s backing of <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/pennsylvania\/tag\/fracking\/\">hydraulic fracturing<\/a> pleased the crowd, Michael McNutt reports, as did his support of \u201climited government.\u201d<\/p><p>Oklahoma, he said, is \u201cground zero of the conservative movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn Oklahoma you do it the right way,\u201d he said. \u201cYou believe in liberty, you believe in private enterprise and free economy. You believe in limited government. You believe in a foundation of our society based on faith and family. You understand that without strong families, you can&#8217;t have a strong economy, the paper reports.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Santorum \u2014 fresh off primary victories in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado \u2014 said he opposed regulating the oil and natural gas industry. He said President Barack Obama was trying to &#8220;crush&#8221; domestic energy production, and voiced support deep offshore drilling and drilling in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, <em>The Oklahoma<\/em> reports.<\/p><p>Santorum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktul.com\/story\/16901193\/fresh-off-primary-victories-santorum-stumps-in-tulsa\">also campaigned<\/a> at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa on Thursday. Oklahoma has 43 Republican delegates, and Santorum said he&#8217;d return to the Sooner State before its Super Tuesday presidential primary on March 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican presidential hopeful was in Oklahoma City yesterday and spoke to about 1,200 mostly conservative audience members at a crowded hotel convention center.The former two-term Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania told the crowd that hydraulic fracturing \u2014 which has been used in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas for since the 1950s \u2014 is \u201cthe new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,301,14,16],"tags":[238,270,229,306,305],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12064,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/12064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}