<html> You never know, Joe, I might end up on an electric scooter, plugged each night into the batteries filled the day before from the roof ..... well, how practical would that be? The Prius doesn't plug in yet, unless you tinker with it and add more and better batteries, but then, I don't have the money for it yet, either, so we're even. It still does better than the Corolla, except financially. 45-60 mpg, depending on how good your footwork is. As for the dams, I hear you -- that's why I send some $$$ each month with my power bill to build the wind farms. Wish they'd get ON with it! A friend took a rusty old Rabbit and converted to biodiesel. Not enough of that for everybody, but for now it works great. There's one local station selling it. The thing runs fine and smells like french fries. (This might be a hazard for those --ahem-- circumferentially challenged.) sssssssssssssnnn At 02:33 PM 7/3/2005 -0700, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Sussssan said: "1993 Toyota Corolla wagon, 31 mpg, and kinda wishing I had a plug-in Prius instead."   TSK! TSK! Susan! 31 mpg is "wasting" fuel IMO. The technology has been around way longer than your 93! My 85 190D gets at least 40mpg. And, on a recent trip to Bend it got 49! As for the "Prius", that's a damned JOKE, they don't get as good a mileage as you get. AND they are selling at ridiculous prices! AND, where do you think the electricity comes from? From all those Dams that are killing our Native Species Fish! Solar/Electric is the only answer. Save the oil for lubing the wheels and action parts!<G> Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I</blockquote></html>