I'll believe a Republican on how much they "cherish life"
After they support ending wars, socialized medicine, ending the death penalty, and further gun restrictions.
Until then, you can stop kidding yourself.

Furthermore, if you want to talk about narcissism:
http://imgur.com/Qe3OX.jpg

Well that's not always the case.
Ethanol is a horrible idea sure, however Oil receives gigantic amounts of direct and indirect subsidies as well.
Namely military usage.

This is more electricity for instance, however compare Geothermal and Solar, to Coal and Nuclear
http://greyfalcon.net/subs.png

Actually ethanol doesn't eat up that much crude.

But it eats up tons of natural gas.

http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2006/05/25/e85-spinning-our-wheels/

Actually Canada and Saudi Arabia are about the same on imports.

However the real thing to be said, is that since oil is a fungible commodity, what he really thinks he's supposed to be accomplishing.
http://greyfalcon.net/dilbert2.png

Only way to cut profits from oil, is to make oil less valuable.

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Oh and incidentally, Canadian oil is environmentally kind of a disaster.
http://greyfalcon.net/tarsands.png

Also you're missing out on how Brazilians consume 6x less transportation fuel than the average American.
http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2006/05/25/e85-spinning-our-wheels/

What did Brazil do?
http://greyfalcon.net/brazil.png

Only a tiny fraction of Brazil's transportion fuel is ethanol.

You're missing out that a huge amount of their fleet is diesel, and natural gas.

And how they produce nearly as much oil domestically as Venezuela (i.e. America's second highest oil importer, higher than Saudi Arabia)

Even if it's powered by the dirtiest Coal plants available, it'd still be cleaner than conventional cars.
http://imgur.com/ODyoB.png
http://www.grist.org/article/new-study-finds-that-plug-in-hybrids-rule-in-all-possible-futures/

As for batteries, both Nickel and Lithium are nontoxic, and easily recyclable.
(Not to mention, Nickel is the 5th most common element on earth. So it's not that "rare".)
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What's more, if we are going to solve anything with global warming, we would need to upgrade our grid anyways.
And it takes about 20 years to shift over to a new car fleet. So we best get started ASAP.

Luckily, we have options:
http://greyfalcon.net/solarenergy.png
http://greyfalcon.net/geoenergy.png
http://www.esolar.com/our_solution
http://greyfalcon.net/egs

No, the big "bugaboo" is that there just isn't enough raw material.

Here for instance is a study which gives the unrealistic assumptions of SugarCane production/conversion efficiency, for half of all available arable land. And even then, with such wildly unrealistic assumptions, the figures are still abysmally low.
http://imgur.com/94nsn.png

And of course the already serious global scarcity on Potassium and Phosphorous.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311092124.htm

And given the growing populations this planet is expected to have, it would be rather criminal to place event further scarcity on those resources.

Well the correlation could be the other way around.

People who have a higher desire to understand reality might just be more inquisitive, and be less susceptible to deception.

Not likely.
Libertarians are still, at the core of their ideology, trickle down economics fundamentalists.

The basis of their ideology is a rejection of reality.

Which also might have something to do with their rejection of econometrics.

Not to mention, it's a dramatically better option than dirty biofuels or liquid coal.

Trick of course being, it's not really possible to have enough biomass anyways.
So it's really a question of temporarily using coal, and moving to cleaner electricity.
Or liquefying coal, shale and tar sands, using that till it kills us.

Khosla obviously though thinks biofuels are wonderful.
http://www.grist.org/article/vinod-khosla-blows-his-credibility-dissing-plug-ins#comments

You know, coming from slashdot, I would have thought you'd have an understanding of thermodynamics.
Or at least try to make a look into things before making a kneejerk response.

Even if it's powered by the dirtiest Coal plants available, it'd still be cleaner than conventional cars.
http://imgur.com/ODyoB.png
http://www.grist.org/article/new-study-finds-that-plug-in-hybrids-rule-in-all-possible-futures/

As for batteries, both Nickel and Lithium are nontoxic, and easily recyclable.
(Not to mention, Nickel is the 5th most common element on earth. So it's not that "rare".)
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What's more, if we are going to solve anything with global warming, we would need to upgrade our grid anyways.
And it takes about 20 years to shift over to a new car fleet. So we best get started ASAP.

Luckily, we have options:
http://greyfalcon.net/solarenergy.png
http://greyfalcon.net/geoenergy.png
http://www.esolar.com/our_solution
http://greyfalcon.net/egs

Well one problem with Appigo Todo, is that it's essentially Mac Only for the Desktop

Although Toodledo's website works well enough.
Especially since I have a shortcut like this:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --app="http://www.toodledo.com/views/index.php"

And I use the official Toodledo app on my ipod touch.

As for Calendar, I'd suggest maybe giving this app a try:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sched-sync-google-calendar/id331446738?mt=8
Pretty handy to be able to edit calendar items when on the go.

As for NoteSpark, I'll look into that one. But recently ToodleDo added the ability to put Notes into it's syncing.
Before I also tried using GoogleDocs with MightDocs. But that wasn't editable on the ipod.

A suggestion for this notebook method.
Fold the top corner of each previous day's page.

That way you can open directly to your current day.

I tried index cards.
Heck, even was using the Mead half-sized index cards. Since they fit well into wallets.
http://www.google.com/images?q=mead+half+sized+index

But so far I've found officemax notepads work best. - http://i.imgur.com/yZwyL.jpg