Road Signs of Rage Against Oil Spill

With the BP oil spill dominating conversation in Washington and among talking heads, the people of the Gulf Coast are working to make sure their voices are heard, too, using a common post-disaster technique: the road-side sign. In Florida, Louisiana, and even New York, citizens have posted messages. Some feature pleas for assistance, others invective against BP or the government, or even just a strategically delivered splatter of paint. In towns that depend on oil for livelihoods, like Houma, La., it's a very different message—an impassioned defense of the deep-water drilling industry. Here are a few signs, starting from May 2, nearly two weeks after the explosion aboard Deepwater Horizon, and continuing as the crisis continued to evolve.