It's electric.....

FINAL RESULTS:  I'm impressed, my Chevy Volt test commute this week from Monday to Friday has forever changed my thinking about our dependency on foreign oil...I drove a total of 174.7 miles during my commute, due to depleting the battery only one time I used 0.3 gallons of gas, that's right, less than a third of a gallon.  That makes my gas mileage for the week 582 miles per gallon!  The one day that I depleted the battery I drove 42 miles on electric alone, I then drove another 12 miles and used about 0.3 gallons (it was actually slightly less but the system rounds up).  Even paying for the extra electricity to charge the car you're only talking about a few bucks to "fill it up", additionally having the gas engine, you can still drive to Disney if you want and still get around 40 to 50 miles per gallon.  The market still seems like it's in the early stages of these types of cars but with these kinds of stats it's very hard to overlook them.  The next time we're looking to purchase a car, we'll definitely be putting PHEVs on the top of the list.

So this post has nothing to do with the new house, however, it has a lot to do with being "green".  Progress Energy this week started a program that let's employees test commute with some of the plugin hybrid chevy volts and all electric Nissan leafs.  I was one of the first to sign up and I get to drive the chevy volt all week this week!  Day 1, trip from work to house was 14.5 miles and was all electric, didn't use a drop of gas and still had enough juice for about 20 more miles....very cool, at this rate it would slash our typical commuting gas expenses to pennies on the dollar.

UPDATE:  as of day 3 I've been able to achieve more than 300 miles per gallons!!!  I've driven well over 100 miles so far and only used 3/10 gallon after the battery was depleted on my Tuesday afternoon commute, if only all cars could get even 100 mpg it would change our entire dependency on foreign oil.