Eight Wheels & Eight Paws: What A Way To Go
AT THE MOUNTAIN Recede — Having installed a passive solar power system at the mountain drawing back that is paying dividends because our local utility has to buy our surplus intensity and we’ve got gobs of it, the next logical step in managing our lives more economically and environmentally agreeable was to buy a hybrid vehicle. And so the DF&C ponied up for a 2011 Lexus CTh hatchback in a color called Fire Agate Gem, which not coincidentally is a metallic version of the color of Nicky and Jack, our sister-companion chocolate Labrador retrievers.
The purchase was also necessitated by the act that the DF&C’s 2000 Lexus RX3000 SUV (whom we call Rex; get it? RX) has 310,000 miles on the clock and while we don’t representation on getting rid of it anytime soon because it’s a great all-swing drive car during the snowy winters hereabouts, it is getting extended in the tooth. It also consumes 20 miles per gallon on the DF&C’s pretty lengthy commutes to and from the hospitals where she toils.
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