Will electric vehicles be better for the environment.

Lately I've been wondering, just in the back of my mind, if electric vehicles will really be better for the environment. Here's my (albeit synical) rationale. They say that crude oil (petroleum) will run out before coal. Apparently we have hundreds of years of coal reserves in this country, but very little oil. So will electric vehicles allow us to run on a carbon emitting fuel longer? I hope not - but I still want a Nissal Leaf.

Kindle for PC on Linux

I just got Kindle for PC running under Wine (on Linux). It works great! - nearly as good as my Windows partition. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, Kindle for PC 1.3.0 (30884), and Wine 1.3.9. My trick was to do a complete Wine removal, rm -rf ~/.wine, install Wine 1.3.9, and then the KindleForPC-installer.exe. I did not need to specify that the Kindle app be run as a Windows 98 program. The only thing I see wrong is that the blue underline under hyperlinks in the book have a fixed width (longer than the word). My guess is this is a font issue.

Many thanks to the Wine team. I'm off to read now...