OK, so I think our vehicle situation has been temporarily suspended. After talking with a hobby-mechanic friend they figured out that we do not need to be giving the Jeep gas when we start it (as we had been giving abundantly) because we keep flooding it. Hence the reason it work again in a few hours. So since then, we have driven it without issue back and forth several places. It doesn’t really solve our issue for when I go to work but now that he has a half-decent back up for me to leave here if I take the van, I think we are back-burning the idea of buying another vehicle.