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Sen. McCain is giving Pres. Bush credit for lifting a ban on offshore oil drilling for a $10/ barrel fall in oil prices. Of course, no more oil is on the market, and won't be for 8 years. But the act of the pResident talking about adding oil lowered prices?
Nope, lower demand, and the economy slowing is bringing down prices.
So, credit Bush and McCain for screwing up the economy, shutting down 2 of the largest banks in America, traashing the dollar, all to kill demand to lower the price of oil!
Top Obama advisor and ex Asst. Secretary of State for African Affairs, Susan Rice. Main project: BOMB SUDAN 
NEW ORLEANS — A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the center of this city to the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday following the worst oil spill here in nearly a decade. The fuel-laden barge that collided with a heavy tanker on Wednesday was still leaking.
Absorbent barriers floated along the banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Thursday. The pungent oil smell kept tourists in the French Quarter away from a riverside path.
The thick industrial fuel pouring from the barge could be smelled for miles in city neighborhoods up and down the river, even as hundreds of cleanup workers struggled to contain the hundreds of thousands of gallons. Some environmentalists worried about reports of fish and bird kills in sensitive marsh areas downstream, though officials said they had so far heard of only a handful of oil-covered birds. Booms to protect areas richest in wildlife, at the river’s mouth, were being deployed, officials said.
The Mississippi remained closed to all boat traffic, stranding about 200 vessels. The Coast Guard said 58 vessels were stopped in the river, the Associated Press reported Friday morning, and 97 were waiting at Southwest Pass — the narrow entrance from the Gulf of Mexico into the river. Another 37 were waiting on the Intercoastal Waterway, a shallow canal system that extends across the Gulf Coast. Forty-eight more were en route and expected to arrive over the weekend.
The effect on the area’s economy was thought to be significant, with this city’s port estimating a loss of at least $100,000 a day and probably more as the river remained closed, and petrochemical facilities dependent on it for shipping were threatened with a bottleneck, the Coast Guard said. Some suburbs stopped drawing drinking water from the river.
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