Oh, Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen That?

If there is to be an expansion of offshore drilling, the first problem is a shortage of offshore drilling rigs.

That's a problem that was readily apparent to everyone but the Tsar of the Baboons.

The article goes on to point out that the operating costs for such drilling rigs (which are really ships, rather than the shallow-water rigs that have legs that go to the sea floor) have quadrupled since Bush began his wars. There is also a problem with obtaining enough trained workers to operate the drilling rigs.

George Bush has to be smoking crack if he thinks that, by his edict, anything is going to change anytime soon.