{"id":70,"date":"2007-10-19T19:46:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T01:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/lowering-our-carbon-footprint-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T01:46:27","slug":"lowering-our-carbon-footprint-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/lowering-our-carbon-footprint-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering Our Carbon Footprint, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year I wrote about how Jerry and I have bought an engine-less lawnmower in Lowering Our Carbon Footprint, part 1<\/a>.\u00a0 I guess the next logical thing to write about is the car.\u00a0 Since we live in Wisconsin, it’s nearly impossible to fill up a hydrogen, biodiesel, or other alternate-fuel using car.\u00a0 Jerry had a pretty serious accident in January, though, and we needed to replace the ruined Pontiac Sunfire.\u00a0 The funny part is that the night before the accident, we had been discussing buying a hybrid as our next car while eating dinner at Zebb’s Family Restaurant<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, about a week after the accident, we inquired at the local Toyota dealership (after finding out that Honda’s not making the Insight<\/a> anymore – and they’re impossible to find used) about the Prius<\/a>.\u00a0 We did our research and figured that the Prius gets the best gas mileage of any car on the market.\u00a0 We had discussed the expensive sticker price for the car, and figured that if we wanted the automotive industry to make more cars like the Prius and continue to be progressive in its use of fuel, we should really start putting our money where our mouths are.\u00a0 So we did.\u00a0 And now we have a car payment that costs more than some apartments we’ve lived in, but the car is efficient, comfortable, fun, and safe.\u00a0 The thing has airbags everywhere.\u00a0 Now, if Jerry were to get into another accident like his last, he would certainly be safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, we have shown the auto industry what we want with our most recent purchase.\u00a0 What was your most recent “green” event?\u00a0 Leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year I wrote about how Jerry and I have bought an engine-less lawnmower in Lowering Our Carbon Footprint, part 1.\u00a0 I guess the next logical thing to write about is the car.\u00a0 Since we live in Wisconsin, it’s nearly impossible to fill up a hydrogen, biodiesel, or other alternate-fuel using car.\u00a0 Jerry had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,35,40,71],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-future","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-18","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}