McCain said today
"There was not a drop of oil spilled after Hurricane Katrina."

Bobby Jindal (R- Louisiana and possible McCain VP)
also stated yesterday the same thing,
so did a major McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer.

McCain Rep Lies: Katrina and Rita 'Didn't Spill A Drop'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JISPKyIWgvU

On July 14, Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior energy adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a lobbyist for Koch Industries, lied to MSNBC's David Schuster, claiming "We withstood Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and we didn't spill a drop."

McCain Claims Offshore Drilling 'Safe'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU6vOEcdUIQ
Sen. McCain (R-AZ) in Houston, June 17, 2008: "As for offshore drilling, it's safe enough these days that not even Hurricanes Katrina and Rita could cause significant spillage from the battered rigs off the coasts of New Orleans and Houston."

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Bobby Jindal Claims Katrina Caused No Oil Spills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b12iyoB3mmo

Q: Real fast, Governor, the price of oil went up five bucks a barrel today. You’ve been drilling off the coast of Louisiana for a number of years. Any oil spills to worry about?

JINDAL: You know, that’s one of the great unwritten success stories, after Katrina and Rita, these awful storms, no major spills.
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The EPA called the spills “worse than the worst-case scenario.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3457319.html

The quantity and cumulative magnitude of the 595 spills, which were spread across four states and struck offshore and inland, rank these two hurricanes among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Some have even compared the total amount of oil released — estimated at 9 million gallons — to the tragedy of Exxon Valdez.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/sep/16/usnews.hurricanekatrina

Katrina oil spills may be among worst on record

The oil pollution in the wake of Hurricane Katrina could be among the worst recorded in North America, officials trying to coordinate the clean-up say. The US coastguard, which is responsible for the marine environment, said yesterday more than 6.5 million gallons of crude oil had been spilt in at least seven major incidents. The previous worst spill in US waters was the 11m gallons in Alaskan waters from the Exxon Valdez in 1989.

"This is a major event," said Lieutenant Colonel Glynn Smith of the coastguard in New Orleans. "Things are going well, but three-quarters of the oil from the spills has not yet been recovered."

The figure does not include petrol and oil spilt from up to 250,000 cars which have been submerged, or that spilt from hundreds of petrol stations. The coastguard says it has received almost 400 reports of spills, the vast majority of which have not been assessed.

President Bush attempted to regain the political initiative with an address to the nation pledging an unprecedented federal effort to help rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf coast. The prime-time speech from New Orleans was timed to confront growing doubts over his leadership abilities, after the stuttering federal response to Katrina's impact.