Screw cars, I'm hitchhiking to VT

So maybe I shouldn't get a car. Good grief. Insurance is going to be the end of me. I called my insurance company a week or so ago and got a quote for the Jetta I am looking at. They told me $160 a month. yea, can't afford that while getting paid $100 a month. So dad called back for me today at lunch and got a new quote. Well, we got it below $100, barely. If I am the only owner, it will be $98 a month, leaving me a whopping $2 a month for gas...a gallon if I am lucky. If mom is a joint owner, it goes down to $87 a month. Better. I know this is going to sound dumb, but I don't want mom as another owner. I am saving all the money I can make this summer so I (me, not mom) can buy me a car. It may sound selfish, but it is going to be my car. I guess I am already feeling possesive about a car I have yet to own. I really want to be able to afford a car on my own and not have to deal with borrowing money, but if insurance is $100 a month, I dunno if I can do that. Apparently you get 20% off the insurance rate, which is why Ian's is only $80 a month. So it sounds to me like the age of cars that I can afford aren't going to have airbags or auto seatbelts so that just sucks for me. It is so annoying!!!! grrrrr... The insurance lady told dad that she really suggests that I get a Honda Civic. With the ones I have found so far, fat chance for me being able to afford one of those. Sorry to be so pissy, but after 2 months and only being told that the cars I am looking at are crappy has kinda started to get to me. I have 5 weeks left to find and buy a car that can drive me and me crap out to Vermont.
Oh well, maybe something ELSE will show up. Whatever.