{"id":6043,"date":"2012-04-20T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:27:33","slug":"low-natural-gas-price-could-hurt-the-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/04\/20\/low-natural-gas-price-could-hurt-the-state-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Natural Gas Price Could Hurt the State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6044\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoftheref\/6039963357\/sizes\/n\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6044\" title=\"Natural Gas Flare\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/natural-gas-flame-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Geoftheref \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Worry over the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/04\/03\/state-revenue-streak-ends-all-eyes-on-the-energy-industry\/\">low natural gas price<\/a> seems to be spreading.<\/p><p>State Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120420_16_A11_CUTLIN505989&rss_lnk=1\">via<\/a> the <em>Tulsa World<\/em>\u2019s Barbara Hoberock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a little concerned on the potential revenue shortfall with natural gas prices,&#8221; said Bingman, R-Sapulpa.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->Bingman and State Treasurer Ken Miller suggested not spending the entire amount of revenue certified by the Board of Equalization in February, which factored in a higher natural gas price. Leave a cushion, basically.<\/p><p>Producers also play a role, Bingman tells the paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If producers are not receiving a reasonable amount for their gas, they can shut their wells down,&#8221; Bingman said. &#8220;There is no sense in dumping more gas on the market to further deplete the price of natural gas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worry over the low natural gas price seems to be spreading.State Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, via the Tulsa World\u2019s Barbara Hoberock: &#8220;I&#8217;m a little concerned on the potential revenue shortfall with natural gas prices,&#8221; said Bingman, R-Sapulpa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,15],"tags":[229],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043"}],"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=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}