Public Radio’s wonderful show, Car Talk has just launched a special “Hybrid Zone” on its website.

We got all kinds of valuable info, such as:
All about hybrids
How they work
The different kinds of hybrids

Even found the answer to which hybrid is right for us in the FAQs. Also found out that bigger is not better as far as engine size goes. Give us a small carbon footprint, please.

Tom and Ray’s weird car humor is nor for everybody, but they do know their stuff.

Henry Blodget’s crystal ball says there should be.

How to get people to conserve fossil fuel and move toward renewable energy?

With, among other things, a gas tax.

Not a flat-rate gas tax. A floating-rate one…that would adjust to the price of oil (and help minimize price spikes).

And not now, because it would be another hammer blow to the economy. In a few years, so people and industries have enough time to adjust.

So maybe not tomorrow, but 2012 could do it, and so would $5/gal gas.

Ford pland to spend $550 million to convert a truck factory to manufacture Ford Focus next year, and an electric version in 2011.

Sure it has some tax incentives ($160 million).

Now start adjusting your mind set to electric Focus. Be first in line in 2011.

Oil is advancing. Hopes for no bad swine flu jitters.

Oil execs say Hooey! on energy independence goal.

You think traffic is bad now? Just wait until the stimulus kicks in for rebuilding roads and bridges.

OPEC cut oil output in April by .3%.

Plug-in cars and solar panels on an army base? You bet your boots.

Louisiana sure hopes so. LA reps are encouraging Ken Salazar to authorize more offshore drilling for gas & oil.

It’s a source of jobs and tax $$$ say the reps.

Quite a difference from the previous meeting held in Atlantic City, where people were talking more about renewable energy and offshore drilling got the thumbs down.

Next stop for Salazar: Anchorage.