Patt Morrison Tues, 12/16

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

1-3 p.m.

 

**LA Times Columnist David Lazarus Guest Hosts**

1:00 – 1:30

OPEN

 

 

 

1:30 – 1:45

Enjoy it While it Lasts: Low Gas Prices Will Prove Fleeting

While absorbing consistently bad news about job losses, evaporating 401(k)’s and billion-dollar bailouts, it was the one small comfort you could take away from an all-around lousy economy:  gasoline prices were comfortably low again, retreating from $4/gallon earlier this year. Now that one guilty pleasure might soon be gone—if OPEC’s expected huge supply cut doesn’t do it, uneconomical oil fields should soon pump the price of gas back up to the $4 range and possibly beyond. How much pain is coming down the pipeline?

 

Guests:

Tom Kloza, publisher & chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service; author of the OPIS “Speaking of Oil” blog

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1:45 – 2:00

Small Car, Big Batteries: The Mini E Makes the Electric Car Cool

Perhaps Detroit could learn a thing or two from BMW’s Mini Cooper brand. The little car, already well regarded for mixing fuel efficiency with solid performance, will soon be available in an all-electric model; the first 500 Mini E’s are being released into the market, including here in L.A., for long-term testing.  While Detroit manufacturers have taken years to develop alternative fuel cars, the Mini E took a mere 10-months to develop.  The Mini E will continue to combine efficiency with speed, going 150-miles on one charge and with an impressive 0 – 60 time. Is the Mini E too good to be true?

 

Guests:

Aaron Robinson, technical editor for Car & Driver magazine

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[NPR NEWS]

 

2:00 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

 

2:30 – 3:00

Wishful Drinking

Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher is here to talk about her new book, Wishful Drinking—a memoir of her childhood as the daughter of a tabloid-rocked show business marriage, anecdotes from life in the limelight, and a frank account of coming to terms with bi-polar disorder and addiction.

 

DAVID: Carrie will be speaking at Booksoup in West Hollywood tonight [Tues] at 7pm.

 

Guests:

Carrie Fisher, Actor and Author, Wishful Drinking

IN STUDIO