“It’s not as bad as I thought.”

GULFPORT — U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor on Saturday said people shouldn’t be so scared about the massive oil spill in the Gulf; he said after flying over it, “it’s not as bad as I thought.”

Taylor said the oil could break up before reaching Mississippi shores.

Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker said he is putting his focus on finding a way to contain the crude that continues to spill each day from the uncapped well in the Gulf.

Taylor flew over the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig Saturday along with Department of Marine Resources Director Bill Walker and Rep. Jo Bonner of Alabama.
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Taylor told a group of reporters waiting at Atlantic Aviation he was less concerned about the spill after witnessing its movement firsthand.

“This isn’t Katrina. It’s not Armageddon,” Taylor said. “A lot of people are scared and I don’t think they should be.”

He described the spill as a light, rainbow sheen with patches that look like chocolate milk.

He did not see any traces along the Louisiana shore, near the Chandeleur Islands in Louisiana or the barrier islands in Mississippi.

He said the closest he saw oil was 20 miles from the Louisiana marsh and that it was further than that away from the Chandeleur Islands and even further from the barrier islands.

“It’s breaking up naturally; that’s a good thing. The fact that it’s a long way from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, that’s a great thing, because it gives it time to break up naturally,” he said.

Walker said the sheen could collect on beaches and in estuaries, but it will evaporate within a week.

Walker’s plan is to let any sheen that makes its way into the marshes evaporate naturally.

“That’s what we will probably do, is leave it alone and let nature take its course,” he said.

Any residue on public beaches would be scraped away with a front-end loader, he said.

Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2010/05/01/2146383/taylor-expects-spill-to-break.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0mohwUHdg

This man is an IDIOT! and he's a Democrat.
They should dump him in the "light, rainbow sheen with patches that look like chocolate milk."

What happened?

:hi:

What's his field of expertise?

He's of course a blue doggy dog- but to be fair, his district is overwhelmingly Republican.

Not so "in the oil companies pockets" as one would think.

See: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?CID=N00003350

Flying over in an aircraft tells all there is to know.

I should've ignored the other so-called "experts" and just listened to him first.............

On the other hand, put into perspective- one could easily have expected to see a whole lot worse. Add the overwhelming odds are that we will.

Unless of course, the prayers of millions of Gulf Coast fundies prompt some divine intervention....

They are sadly mistaken.

Ignorant asshat declares everything A-OK.

Thank Dog! :toast:

Fuck science, LOL!

evaporates and degrades, but it can take a long time to go away.

because the oil is in the air, and up people's noses.

It's a foul, toxic chemical soup. Not "chocolate milk."

Moron.

sounds pretty, and yummy.

Chocolate milk and rainbows? How nice that sounds. PR for BP?

In that case, just bottle it and get it to the school lunch programs, maybe make stickers out of the rainbows for notebooks.

No, this is potentially catastrophic on a large scale and that fellow deserves a nice, big check from BP, et al.

Ummm, so we let nature take care of itself in the MAN MADE disaster?

Jackass

Director of MS Marine Resources. Who also said it would evaporate in a week.

Oh. My. God.

and have some seafood?
Jackass.

He's an idiot who should keep his goddamned mouth shut about things he's not knowledgable about, especially on a subject like this at a time like this.

Mississippi Marine Resources

He's got a PhD.

He thinks it'll evaporate in a week, when they likely won't be able to stop it for 3 months.

:crazy:

http://www.gulfbase.org/person/view.php?uid=wwalker

Not that I would of course, but if he's not willing to let his dog take a swim in it, then why should other animals have to live in it.

Fucker!

chocolate is toxic to dogs.

As long as he was the one talking why should his dog be punished for his owner's stupidity?? The man himself should swim in it to show the people it is safe.

We'll watch.

Much of the damage is going to be what we don't see.

After all is said and done how much nature is going to be left to take its course? He is an Asshat.

They must have drank too much chocolate milk.

Give the imbecile a giant straw and tell him to shut the fuck up until he drinks it all.


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Lady Blah Blah's oil sheen.