Gulf Oil Spill: Ask BP's Bob Dudley YOUR Questions (WATCH)

YouTube, Google, and PBS have teamed up to ask President and CEO of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, Bob Dudley, YOUR questions about the Gulf oil spill.

PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez will moderate the interview LIVE from BP headquarters in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, July 1 at 3:30pm ET on both YouTube and NewsHour.PBS.org. ASK everything you want to know about cleanup efforts, environmental damage, government regulations, and the future of offshore drilling, and VOTE for the best questions to be asked of Bob Dudley.

Go HERE to submit your questions to BP and watch the interview LIVE here on Thursday at 3:30 ET.

WATCH BP answers YOUR questions:

Comments

[maxfax]

08:29 PM on 07/03/2010

Dear Mr. BP
Do you know of any gag orders on any contractor that supplies equipment or material in the clean up?

[MAX1]

01:19 PM on 07/02/2010

Dear BP,
You say you are considering a "PLAN B" to stop the gushing toxic crude/gases from being released into the gulf. But shouldn't "PLAN B" have been a BOP that was truely "FAIL SAFE"? And that four story TOP HAT, wasn't that essentially, "PLAN C"? And the SIPPY STRAW, "PLAN D"? And the JUNK SHOT, ""PLAN E"? And TOP KIL, "PLAN F"? And then the removal of the riser, for another TOP HAT, "PLAN G"? Relief wells #1, "PLAN H" and #2 "PLAN I"?

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[liberalOrgonian]

12:04 PM on 07/02/2010

Dear Bp,
How many walruses did you find in the gulf waters?

[Allison Good]

11:12 AM on 07/02/2010

My question would be, Dear BP, what exactly do you have to say for yourself since the spill has permanently and perhaps irreversably damaged the unique culture and way of life in South Louisiana?

[LiberalBuzz]

05:22 PM on 07/01/2010

What I would ask is why,with the hundreds upon hundreds, if not thousands of supertankers and just plain big tankers why they are BURNING off the oil instead of loading these tankers up and shipping the oil to refineries and/or storage facilities?

And, although you are using the technology from Keven Costner's company,there is a better company.:

http://www.evtn.com/

Kevin's outfit can do 250 gallons a minute and these people can do THIRTYFIVE HUNDRED GALLONS A MINUTE.

So what is the hold up?

Why are you refusing press access?

What are you hiding? And spare us the BS about safety of the press. These guys go into war zones that would curl your hair.

[AnnaFr]

04:58 PM on 07/01/2010

A couple of points for the consideration of the sane and reasonable...

(1) BP operates in one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world. They didn't own the oil rig that sank. And they are stepping up and assuming all responsibility for the major effects of the accident.
(2) Aside from a couple of scapegoat individuals, the government is accepting no responsibility for failing to enforce their own existing regulations. And for some reason the public is accepting it. Apparently many believe that people in government are motivated by different incentives than people in corporations. They are not.
(3) BP agreed to turn 20B over to government control without any due process.
(4) BP already paid 2.5B in clean-up expenses. They've fast-tracked hundreds of millions of dollars of liability claims, paying them without any due process. And they've pledged to pay billions more.

This oil spill is obviously an environmental disaster, and BP should and will bear most of the responsibility. But it's also the first major US deep-sea oil rig accident in 40 years. And BP seams to be making every atonement that could reasonably be expected. Hopefully the courts will introduce some reason into a tragic situation that has become characterized less by corporate irresponsibility and more by populist outrage and political opportunism.

[TankGirlz]

05:11 PM on 07/01/2010

Scuse me, but it has been reported that they cut corners on safety, for spills and for their employees. I'm not gonna feel sorry for BP

[LiberalBuzz]

05:17 PM on 07/01/2010

Excuse me as well.....work for BP?

[NextNyc]

04:46 PM on 07/01/2010

Sigh, sad pr attempt

[noupsell]

04:39 PM on 07/01/2010

What did he say? They took some ROV's and looked around for other leaks in the seabed based on reports of other people? Huh? Excuse me? I would have followed up with, "Really? Who else is down there with you at 5000 feet under the sea (other than your own team) that you would even take such an observation seriously? Yeah we spent millions of dollars in ROV time to search for a rumor... I call BS based on their previous track record of lies, cover-ups distortion of facts and manipulation of the media. Now I'm even more convinced there are other leaks in the seabed at MC252 and the other rumored location.

[jamesjm]

04:33 PM on 07/01/2010

Lions urinate on trees to mark their territory. GE did the same in the Hudson River, contaminating it with PCB's and dioxins for near eternity. Same thing happened when Corporations spoiled the Baltimore harbor. The list is endless around our country. Corporation's pollution, mark their territories because they think they own our waters. And historically it happens time and time again. Little happens except we the people end up paying in the end with unusable waters, streams, lakes and harbors. When will someone rein in the corporations and create oversight so this doesn't happen again???

Corporations are running this country, basically pissing on it and on all of us. Why, because they can!

[fcsakes]

04:26 PM on 07/01/2010

Please don't call this an "accident" BP - it is not an accident. It is a result of criminal negligence, conspiracy to avoid the cost of doing business PROPERLY, back-door "deals" with the previous administrations in order to maximize shareholder return.

You cheated because you are greedy and now the whole country is paying for your greed.

[hipichick7]

05:19 PM on 07/01/2010

Fanned and Faved.

[iridium species]

04:18 PM on 07/01/2010

SHAM

[jamesjm]

04:15 PM on 07/01/2010

What is BP doing with all the clean-up waste? Where is it going and how are they disposing of it? All the oil soaked booms, tarred sand, rags, paper, towels, sponges etc. - where are they taking it?

Is it ending up in landfills or is it incinerated? Will this soiled clean-up waste be haunting us when it seeps out of our landfills or gets burned into the air we breath?

Who will pay for properly disposing of what will be thousands of tons of this waste???

[alfredo 1]

04:35 PM on 07/01/2010

Who will pay for properly disposing-----? Everybody except BP.

[Snap246]

04:13 PM on 07/01/2010

When BP will go on AC360 and answer intelligent, legitimate questions by Anderson Cooper, then I'll believe they'll answer questions. He has invited them dozens of times, and they REFUSE.
So this little PR forum is a crock.

PS Submit your questions, then 'no more questions accepted at this time'. What the heck's up with that????

[LiberalBuzz]

05:18 PM on 07/01/2010

A BETTER place to send BP would be RACHEL MADDOW. Anderson is a flyweight compared to what Rachel would ask.

[emmanuel goldstein]

04:09 PM on 07/01/2010

Accident? If I decide to go to sleep while driving down the street and crash into someone, that isn't an 'accident', it's willful negligence.

[Snap246]

04:14 PM on 07/01/2010

Yeah you right.

[alfredo 1]

04:42 PM on 07/01/2010

Yes! But if you drive a super tanker stone drunk, full of crude oil, onto reef it's an accident.
Or, if yo cut corners and compromise safety to save money drilling in really, really, deep water, that's also an accident.

[emmanuel goldstein]

04:08 PM on 07/01/2010

No one anticipated a continuous spill? What about Ixtoc?