Photo: Pete Souza, The Obama-Biden Transition Project

“Oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.” – President Barack Obama promoting the virtues of offshore oil rigs to a gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, two weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf. (via the new and alarming report on the Obama administration and the decisions that led to the disaster in the Gulf from the Wall Street Journal.)