This is the dumbest thing I've read all day. Haley Barbour thinks the oil is nothing but a sheen similar to when you spill motor boat gasoline.
"Come on down here and play golf, enjoy the beach, catch a fish and pay a little sales tax while you're here," Barbour said Wednesday during a televised news conference in Biloxi, Miss.
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Oil has not started washing up on shore in any large quantities, and Barbour likened much of the spill to the gasoline sheen commonly found around ski boats."We don't wash our face in it, but it doesn't stop us from jumping off the boat to ski," Barbour said.
He forgot to mention that it looks like chocolate milk. I mean, it's just chocolate milk. Delicious!