As Spill Drifts Toward Gulf Shores, Oil Companies Brace for Political Whirlwind - NYTimes.com

As Spill Drifts Toward Gulf Shores, Oil Companies Brace for Political Whirlwind - NYTimes.com: "Those are the kinds of images that big oil and its supporters in Congress are fearing as a thin slick of crude created by the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig drifts toward Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta."