Yeah I remember hearing about another oil rig in trouble before and I never looked into that angle too. Something is really starting to smell fishy with all this.
I was kind of wondering about all this the other day when I was debating 107, but I didn't want to come out and say anything definite, especially with him. I was talking about Obama sending swat teams there and there possibly being terrorists (although I said the riggers were because I didn't know who) and Obama shuting down all the rigs. And now it appears all of it is coming to pass.
And I still wonder about the government taking advantage of this and grabing all the oil they can. I know the goal is to have government run everything.
Plus like Gbear or DQ said, this will affect the food procudtion in that area and the rising gas prices will be a given. Naturally this is probably a national security threat too.