{"id":4986,"date":"2012-03-01T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:01:57","slug":"mitt-romney-new-energy-adviser-is-an-oklahoma-oil-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/01\/mitt-romney-new-energy-adviser-is-an-oklahoma-oil-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney&#8217;s New Energy Adviser is an Oklahoma Oil Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm has been appointed energy adviser to Republican primary front-runner Mitt Romney.<\/p><p>Hamm is the founder and CEO of Enid-based Continental Resources Inc., and was ranked 36th on Forbes magazine\u2019s list of 400 wealthiest Americans. His 68 percent stake in Continental is valued at $11.2 billion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/business\/article.aspx?subjectid=49&articleid=20120301_49_0_hrimgs88376&rss_lnk=1\">reports<\/a> Bloomberg News.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Energy policy and gas prices have become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/obamas-pushback-on-gas-prices-target-the-oil-billionaires\/2012\/02\/29\/gIQAqGqgiR_blog.html\">big part<\/a> of 2012 primary politics. At campaign stops in big-energy Oklahoma, Republican presidential candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/10\/rick-santorum-loves-fracking-and-drilling-hates-federal-regulation\/\">Rick Santorum<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/21\/campaigning-in-oklahoma-newt-gingrich-wants-more-drilling-less-regulation\/\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> endorsed expanded domestic drilling and rallied against federal regulation of the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm has been appointed energy adviser to Republican primary front-runner Mitt Romney.Hamm is the founder and CEO of Enid-based Continental Resources Inc., and was ranked 36th on Forbes magazine\u2019s list of 400 wealthiest Americans. His 68 percent stake in Continental is valued at $11.2 billion, reports Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,301,14],"tags":[325,238,324,326,229,239,306],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986"}],"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=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12038,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/12038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}