Sources: Trump considering top fracking mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary

[bucolic_frolic]

Source: Reuters via Philadelphia Inquirer

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering nominating Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary if elected to the White House on Nov. 8, according to four sources close to Trump's campaign.

The chief executive of Continental Resources would be the first U.S. energy secretary drawn directly from the oil and gas industry since the cabinet position was created in 1977, a move that would jolt environmental advocates but bolster Trump's pro-drilling energy platform.

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Trump, who has yet to make any announcements about his prospective cabinet, has already surrounded himself with strong advocates of traditional energy sources like oil, gas, and coal and has promised to gut environmental regulations to boost drilling and mining if elected.

He tapped U.S. Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, a climate skeptic and drilling advocate, to help draw up his campaign energy platform, and picked Indiana Governor Mike Pence, also a climate skeptic, as his running mate.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/20160721_Reuters_Report_tagreuterscom2016newsmlKCN10100Z_Exclusive__Trump_considering_top_fracking_mogul_Harold_Hamm_as_energy_secretary___sources.html

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Cheney's Energy Task Force on Steroids!

The end of history is upon us.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Jill Stein will save us!

[dhill926]

2. why not...

it's not like he's going to consult with Greenpeace....a fucking nightmare...

[cynzke]

3. FUNNY HOW A WASHINGTON "OUTSIDER".....

Seems to be picking conservative BIG BUSINESS INSIDERS!

[sakabatou]

4. And it just keeps getting worse

[ailsagirl]

5. Great choice, dumdum!!!

Right in character.

[RAFisher]

6. The Energy Secretary deals primary with nuclear material...

It has nothing to do with fucking oil, that's interior. Obama's Energy Secretaries both had PhDs in physics. Fucking morons.

[calguy]

7. Hitler was still making big plans too

In his bunker as the Russians were in Berlin getting closer and closer. Right before he committed suicide.
Trump is making big plans too as his party is falling apart and his convention is turning into a political suicide of sorts.
Something tells me we won't have to worry about any of Donald's cabinet picks.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. An interesting analogy

I was watching youtube vids about WWII tonight, Churchill and the
Battle of Britain

and thinking that this endless drumbeat of press releases from the
Trump campaign, always bad news for progressives, is like a public relations
Blitzkreig

We cannot be demoralized, we must fight on, we must send that crowd
home packing and deal them a humiliating defeat that they will never forget!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Sounds like a George Bush* appointment...

[Judi Lynn]

10. "Energy Secretary?" Harold Hamm? Really? But we don't deserve that! We really DON'T.

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Oh, jeez.



The picture of Dorian Gray's backside. [/center].

[sarcasmo]

11. It's the end of the world as we know it