reef. and evidently, leaking some oil and we're going to be here for a while. >> leaking some oil. in 1989, 11 million gallons of oil leaked out of the exxon valdez. at the time it was worst oil spill in the country's history. exxon was initially supposed to pay $2.5 billion in punitive damage to victims until the u.s. supreme court cut that number to $500 million. by the way, the same year of the spill, exxon made $3.8 billion profit. in the 25 years between the exxon valdez spill and what happened in galveston over the weekend, there has been just about one oil spill a year of more than 100,000 gallons. in this country, alone. this is just a partial list. it doesn't count the scores of smaller oil spills. the largest oil spill in u.s. history was the bp deepwater horizon spill in 2010. the gulf of mexico. an explosion killed 11 people on the rig, and 176 million gallons of oil spilled into the gulf. that's 16 types more oil than the exxon valdez disaster. when you look back at all this, bp, exxon valdez, the question