Eleven men were killed and seventeen injured when the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20. Over the next hundred days, an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, killing untold numbers of sea creatures, birds and animals. The effects of this unprecedented disaster on the environment, the economy, and the people who live and work in the Gulf region will not be fully understood for decades to come.
Of course, in Batiuk’s worldview, the real victims are those who own vacation homes on Florida’s west coast. Why does everything bad happen to Tony?
