An individual close to the Romney campaign said that Mr. Romney’s staff drafted the proposal in consultation with industry executives, including Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma billionaire who is the chairman of the campaign’s energy advisory committee and chief executive of Continental Resources, an oil and gas driller.
The New York Times on Mitt Romney’s new energy plan. Those executives are also his donors. Hamm has donated $985,000 to Romney’s super PAC and as Huffington Post reports today, “Mitt Romney Energy Plan Favors Big Donors In Oil, Gas And Coal Industries.”