{"id":4799,"date":"2012-02-21T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:02:05","slug":"campaigning-in-oklahoma-newt-gingrich-wants-more-drilling-less-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/21\/campaigning-in-oklahoma-newt-gingrich-wants-more-drilling-less-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigning in Oklahoma: Newt Gingrich Wants More Drilling, Less Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4804\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/newt-gingrich.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4804\" title=\"Former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/newt-gingrich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/newt-gingrich.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/newt-gingrich-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">FREDERIC J. BROWN \/ AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>In campaign stops in Tulsa and Oklahoma City yesterday, Newt Gingrich <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/newt-gingrich-speaks-to-about-500-in-oklahoma-city\/article\/3650877\/?page=1\">reinforced<\/a> the pro-religion, anti-regulation red state rallying cry, telling March 6 primary voters he\u2019d undo most of President Barack Obama\u2019s policies.<\/p><p>Economically, Gingrich focused specifically on domestic energy expansion, which played well in oil and natural gas-loving Oklahoma.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>The former U.S. Speaker of the House spoke to about 3,500 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120221_16_A1_CUTLIN470819&rss_lnk=16\">Monday afternoon<\/a> at Oral Roberts University\u2019s Mabee Center before traveling to OKC for an evening speech to about 500 at the Jim Thorpe Association and Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.<\/p><p>If elected, Gingrich said he\u2019d expand oil and natural gas drilling \u2014 offshore, on federal lands, and in Alaska \u2014 and said he\u2019d approve the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL Pipeline.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/newt-gingrich-speaks-to-about-500-in-oklahoma-city\/article\/3650877\/?page=1\">From<\/a> <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>\u2019s Michael McNutt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration last month rejected the project, which Gingrich said would bring gasoline prices down to $2 to $2.50 a gallon (they are projected to reach $4 before summer), as well as produce more U.S. jobs and make America more energy independent.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Gingrich\u2019s $2 gallon-of-gas remark is a sharp contrast to rival Rick Santorum, \u201cwho told an Ohio audience that big-city Americans should brace themselves for $5-a-gallon gas,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/leading-gingrich-aide-says-former-house-speaker-in-gop-race-to-stay-needs-to-win-georgia\/2012\/02\/20\/gIQAz6C9OR_story.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p><p>Santorum, the former two-term Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, campaigned in Oklahoma on Feb. 9 and played on many of the same <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/10\/rick-santorum-loves-fracking-and-drilling-hates-federal-regulation\/\">energy industry themes<\/a>.<\/p><p>Gingrich also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koco.com\/news\/30500236\/detail.html\">addressed<\/a> the Oklahoma Legislature this morning at the state Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In campaign stops in Tulsa and Oklahoma City yesterday, Newt Gingrich reinforced the pro-religion, anti-regulation red state rallying cry, telling March 6 primary voters he\u2019d undo most of President Barack Obama\u2019s policies.Economically, Gingrich focused specifically on domestic energy expansion, which played well in oil and natural gas-loving Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,301,14,16],"tags":[859,229,318,239,306,305],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799"}],"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=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}