Well folks, we finally did it!

We’d been talking about getting a new car for years, we just couldn’t find what we wanted.  There are no environmentally friendly family cars.  To have room you have to get a mini van which get horrible gas milage (compared to our 45 mpg Jetta), and to get good mileage you have to get a small car.  Plus, we did have a vegetable oil kit in our jetta so that we could run our car off of straight vege oil, which was free from the right sources.  (But, we’d taken that kit out a while ago and now just run it on biodiesel.)  So, it was hard to think about going back to gas.  But, after much looking around and realizing that the jetta was just tooooo small and costing us toooo much in repairs, we decided on a Toyota Prius.  It is roomier than the Jetta, gets great gas mileage, cost less to repair, and seems like the best option out there for us right now.  So, meet the new car!  a 2010 Toyota Prius… arrived on the lot yesterday morning and we drove home in the afternoon.  Isn’t she a beauty!!  I’m going to have to get use to the fact that it is very, very quiet when it is running, especially compared to a diesel engine.  But, really, you can’t hear it at all.  It’s really nice, but you have to be extra careful when you are in parking lots, ’cause pedestrians might not hear you coming!