Yes it can. Pay more and you get the welders. If not then your project goes on hold. Train your own people. Both life and economics are competitive. In the weeks after Katrina the price of a gallon of milk was $20.00 in New Orleans. Should we have forced a price control on milk then? Were those milk guys price gouging? No, those milk providers had to drive hundreds on miles to get that milk and they had to buy it at a high price and ship it back into New Orleans. It is the way it works.
I don’t disagree with you on a micro basis. We’re simply talking about two different things.