Not a good day for John McCain and Jim "Drill Here, drill now" Gilmore as we see real evidence of the danger of their pandering on energy policy. Per CNN:Not a good day for John McCain and Jim "Drill Here, drill now" Gilmore as we see real evidence of the danger of their pandering on energy policy. Per CNN:
The U.S. Coast Guard has closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans southward after a tanker and a barge collided, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the river.
The river, a major shipping route between the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico, could be closed for days during the cleanup, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
More than 30 ships already are queued up along the river, waiting to pass through the closed zone, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jaclyn Young said.
Setting the obvious ecological effects of this accident aside, the economic impacts will be significant as dozens of boats sit idle waiting for the river to be reopened. Perhaps incidents like these will convince McSame and Jimmy The Drill to reconsider their hackery.