in the meantime, plans for better collection efforts at the deepwater horizon site will likely be delayed due to swells caused by tropical storm alex. over the past two days, oil washed ashore at one of mississippi s largest resort cities, biloxi. tourists cutting their vacations short, oil has been spotted although st. andrew s beach and gulf park estates. today governor barbour declared efforts must be greatly increased and called on bp and federal officials to respond. the governor had deployed only 58 national guard troops out of a total of possible 6,000 of them. and his chief complaint about the whole thing was that the media was scaring people away. barbour has also criticized the moratorium on exploratory wells in the gust and the day before bp agreed to create a $20 billion fund, governor barbour expressed concern about the money flow, quoting if bp is the responsible party under the law,