EarthBeat Radio

Recently, armed rebels in Nigeria attacked an enormous oil facility in the Niger Delta. That and other attacks cut Nigeria's oil production to its lowest level in nearly two decades -- and sent America's gasoline prices even higher. Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham speaks to Nnimmo Bassey, the executive director of Environmental Right Action / Friends of the Earth, in Nigeria. John Ghazvinian, the author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil, and Michael Watts, the director of African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, join the conversation.

Then we look at the upside of the high price of oil - stopping suburban sprawl. Filmmaker Andrea Torrice discusses her latest work that focuses on the economic justice issues of sprawl with Carl Anthony of Earth House Leadership Center. And we hear about the connections between high gas prices and the bursting of the housing bubble with Joe Cortright, an economic analyst for Impresa Consulting in Portland, Oregon.

Then, we discuss the possibilities of plug-in hybrid cars with David Sandalow, a senior fellow on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.

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Music for this edition of Earthbeat is from Thievery Corporation.

Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.