Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “America first” agenda increasingly applies to an energy policy that envisages the US meeting all of its oil needs from domestic sources. Trump would “get rid of foreign oil” if elected, US independent Continental Resources chief executive Harold Hamm says. Hamm delivered a prime-time speech on energy at the Republican convention on 20 July. The country could double oil production with Trump in charge and restore its “rightful place as the energy leader of the world”, Hamm says. His remarks followed Trump’s earlier vow to make the US “totally independent” of the need for Opec crude. Trump promises to throw out regulations and allow drilling on federal land that he claims could hold $50 trillion worth of oil and natural gas reserves.
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