Is the electric car finally here to stay?

What does the comeback of electric vehicles say about the future of car industry? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the where the car industry is headed. The electric car is back on the market now with the new Nissan "Leaf" and the Tesla "Roadster." Does this signal a true comeback? Have electric vehicles ousted hybrids as the new "green" cars? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will transportation change with the next generation of cars? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? and forthcoming Revenge of the Electric Car

Kelly O'Brian, host of the radio program, "In the Fast Lane," on KUSP Santa Cruz

Michael Moyer, technology and environment reporter for Scientific American

Dale Miller, president of the San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association

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Are Cars Going Extinct?

What's the future of personal transportation? A big chunk of the federal stimulus plan supports the building, repair and expansion of roads at the same time climate scientists tell us fossil-fueled cars are pushing us more quickly toward catastrophe. Are we at a point where personal transportation might come into question? What does your car mean to you? And what would it take for you to pull it off the road for good?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the future of the car? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Patricia Monahan, director of the California office of the Union of Concerned Scientists and deputy director for the Clean Vehicles program.

Carli Paine, transportation director for Transform

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Your Call 121908 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. Chrysler has announced the closure of its 30 factories for at least one month and G.M. needs $4 billion this month to stay afloat. We will talk about continuing crisis in the auto industry with McClatchy's Kevin Hall. The shoe episode has put Iraq back in the headlines but what is not getting enough attention? We will be joined by independent journalist Dahr Jamail and ProPublica's T. Christian Miller. Where did you get the context you needed to make sense of the week's news? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Dahr Jamail, independent journalist
T. Christian Miller, investigative reporter for ProPublica
Kevin Hall, economic reporter with McClatchy

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Your Call 112408 The Road Ahead for the Big Three

Is the crisis in Detroit an opportunity to get the car industry we want? On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about the struggling US auto industry. The heads of three Detroit automakers flew down in their corporate jets to make a case for federal aid to stave off bankruptcy. Skeptical lawmakers were unmoved. So what is ahead for future of auto industry? Is saving the Big Three an opportunity or just a big problem? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Michael Brylawski, vice president of Rocky Mountain Institute. He heads its Mobility/Vehicle Efficiency (MOVE) Practice.

Kelly Erin O'Brien, Vice President, and host of "Life in the Fast Lane" on KUSP, Central Coast Public Radio, 88.9 FM

Chelsea Sexton, co-founder of The Lightning Rod Foundation and an advocate for Electric Transportation

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Your Call 112408 The Road Ahead for the Big Three

Is the crisis in Detroit an opportunity to get the car industry we want? On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about the struggling US auto industry. The heads of three Detroit automakers flew down in their corporate jets to make a case for federal aid to stave off bankruptcy. Skeptical lawmakers were unmoved. So what is ahead for future of auto industry? Is saving the Big Three an opportunity or just a big problem? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Michael Brylawski, vice president of Rocky Mountain Institute. He heads its Mobility/Vehicle Efficiency (MOVE) Practice.

Kelly Erin O'Brien, Vice President, and host of "Life in the Fast Lane" on KUSP, Central Coast Public Radio, 88.9 FM

Chelsea Sexton, co-founder of The Lightning Rod Foundation and an advocate for Electric Transportation

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Your Call 112108 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we examine the week that was in American media. U.S. stocks have plunged; the unemployment rate is its highest in 16 years. And the auto industry bailout is stalled in Senate. How does the media continue to cover the economic crisis? Seven years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan the country faces an increasingly uncertain future. How is Obama's presidency going to change U.S. foreign policy? And who has Obama's ears? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests: Pratap Chatterjee, investigative journalist and executive director of CorpWatch
Linda Feldmann, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Kevin G. Hall, economics reporter with McClatchy Newspapers

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Your Call 081308 Green Car Conundrum

Do alternative fuel cars solve our problems? Can a car based transportation system ever be sustainable? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the latest electric, hybrid, low-emission diesel and alternative fuel cars. Makers of next generation electric cars say they get the equivalent of 170 miles per gallon, but are the claims road tested any better than the prototypes? Are hybrids better than today's diesel? Does changing the fuel in the motor solve all or even most of the problems we get with cars? It's your call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Shannon Arvizu in LA
Writes for Autobloggreen.com and Triplepundit.com and is a PhD candidate in Environmental Sociology at Columbia University. Her thesis is about the clean car movement.

Meghan Sinott in Portland
Publicity, Advertising and Apparel organizer for the June 2008 Carfree Cities Conference in Portland, Oregon

Michou Olivera in San Francisco
Co-owners of Luscious Garage a SF repair shop that only works on hybrids. Olivera BARTs to work and on weekends rebuilds classic muscle cars.

Russ Heimerich in Sacramento
Spokesman for the California Bureau of Automotive Repair's Drive Healthy Campaign

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