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October 27, 2011
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Doing more with
less on the road
Between the debt-ceiling ker-
ruffle and Hurricane Irene, you
may have missed two bits of sum-
mertime news that will be impor-
tant for what we drive in the com-
ing years.
First, President Barack Obama
announced that the administration
and automakers had reached a
deal to double the fuel economy
of our national fleet of cars start-
ing in model year 2017 and reach-
ing the goal by 2025. Right now,
cars and light trucks - light trucks
include what I call my "little old
lady SUV" - get an average of 27
mpg. By 2025 those same vehicles
are to average an impressive 54.5
mpg.
The second bit of news came a
little later but was equally inter-
esting. For the first time, compa-
nies that build "big rig" trucks,
work vehicles like garbage trucks,
and buses will also have to con-
form to efficiency standards. In
model years 2014-2018, big rigs
are to become 23 percent more
efficient and work trucks and
buses will be 9 percent more
miserly.
In some ways, big rigs and
buses are already quite efficient.
It's true you see them belch black
emissions when they accelerate,
but because they haul large pay-
loads as they tootle down the road
they pack in a lot of work per gal-
lon of fuel consumed. My 4-cylin-
der SUV gets pretty good gas
mileage - in the upper 20s in
terms of mpg - but when the only
thing in it is me, it's just not effi-
cient in terms of pounds of pay-
load. Still, truck and bus engi-
neers will now be tasked with the
challenge of making the behe-
moths of the streets and highways
even more efficient than they cur-
rently are.
Most of us don't make deci-
sions about which big rig to pur-
chase or what model of bus our
city transit system should buy. But
when it comes to personal vehi-
cles, we have more and more
options that both speak to the goal
iof efficiencY,and also to dixersify.-
.ing the lOf energywerety on
for transportation.
Here's just a sampler of what
vehicle type you could purchase
when next you're on the market
for a new car:
Traditional hybrid cars like the
standard Prius - these vehicles are
powered by gasoline. You don't
plug them in for a charge, you just
fill them up with gasoline (like
your father's Oldsmobile). The
hybrids get much better mileage
than many cars, but they are still
100 percent gasoline dependent.
Newer hybrids like the Chevy
Volt - this car runs for short dis-
tances on electricity alone. You
Roc Doc
By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters
In some ways,
big rigs and buses
are already quite
efficient.
plug it in while you sleep and it's
charged for you in the morning.
Driving across town in the Volt is
like owning an all-electric car. For
many commuters, this has the
appeal of economy because elec-
tricity is cheap compared to gaso-
line. If you want to go long dis-
tances, the vehicle starts automat-
ically using gasoline for energy -
so you can drive across a state or
two by filling up.
All-electric cars like the Nissan
Leaf- this car is all electric, all
the time. You "pour" energy into it
by plugging it in for a charge,
likely while you sleep. It has no
tailpipe, which is pretty• cool -
although the power-plant that
made the electricity the car runs
on creates emissions if it's pow-
ered by fossil fuels.
Natural gas vehicles like one
type of the Honda Civic - this
ever-popular car can be purchased
with a motor that runs on natural
gas. Natural gas burns quite clean-
ly. You can recharge the vehicle
with compressed natural gas at
your home. If that sounds exotic,
you may have already been in a
natural gas vehicle - some airport
shuttle buses and urban taxis are
powered in this fashion.
In short, diverse types of vehi-
cles are now coming into their
own. Foi: "thse" Of'ds who love
motors and engines, it's a great
time to be alive. And although 1
hope to driVe my plain-wmil]a 4-
cylinder SUV for another ten
years,
I also allow myself to day-
dream of some new vehicle, much
more efficient than what I grew up
with and perhaps powered by nat-
ural gas or electricity.
I'm thinking of bright yellow,
maybe with red flames painted on
the sides.
N.D. Matters
By Lloyd Omdahl
(Dr. E. Kirsten Peters, a native
of the rural Northwest, was
trained as a geologist at
Princeton and Harvard.)
Annual Juried Student Art
Show in DSU Art Gallery
The Annual Juried Student Art
Show will be in the DSU Art
Gallery Oct. 31 through Nov. 23.
An artist's reception will be held on
Sunday, Nov. 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. at
the DSU ArtGallery, Klinefelter
Hall. The event is free and open to
the public.
Art works include oil and ac12€1ic
paintings, digital painting and
ceramics. The show will be juried by
David D. Wilson from Black Hills
State University. Cash prizes
will be awarded to student artists in
the categories of "Best of Show"
and "Faculty Choice." Five Merit
Awards also will be given. Student
award winners will be announced at
the artist's reception.
The DSU Art Gallery is open
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday -
Friday. Support for the gallery
comes from DSU, private donations
and the North Dakota
Council on the At'ts, which is
funded by the state of North Dakota
and the National Endowment for
the Arts.
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Rogers
Jennifer Dobrowski and Brent
Rogers. along with their parents,
Rob and Jeri Dobrowski and Bill
and Deanie Rogers, announce
their upcoming wedding.
Grandparents of the couple are
Joe Dobrowski (the late Teresa
Dobrowski). Wibaux, Mont.,
Alice Janssen (the late John
Janssen), Miles City, Mont., and
the late Warren Rogers and the
late Catherine Rogers, Wibaux,
Mont.
Dobrowski is employed at the
University of North Dakota.
Rogers works in the construction
industry.
The two will reside near
Reynolds, N.D., 20 miles south
of Grand Forks, N.D.
A Nov. 12, 2011, ceremony
will be held in Beach, N.D., with
special entertainment and dance
to follow at the Wibaux County
Fairgrounds.
All are welcome to join the
festivities at 8 p.m. at the fair-
grounds.
Deer hunters
reminded of
regulations
Hunters with a deer license in
unit 3F2 are reminded of preventive
measures intended to reduce the
likelihood of spreading chronic
wasting disease within North
Dakota.
Hunters harvesting a big game
animal cannot transport a carcass
containing the head and spinal col-
umn outside of the unit unless it's
taken directly to a meat processor.
However, the head can be removed
from the carcass and transported
outside of the unit if it is to be sub-
mitted to a CWD surveillance drop-
off location or a licensed taxider-
mist.
In addition to carcass transporta-
tion guidelines, hunting big game
over bait is prohibited in unit 3F2.
Bait includes grain, seed, miner-
al, salt, fruit, vegetable nut, hay or
any other natural or manufactured
food placed by an individual. Bait
does not include agricultural prac-
tices, gardens, wildlife food plots.
agricultural crops, livestock feeds,
fruit or vegetables in their natural
location such as apples on or under
an apple tree, or unharvested food
or vegetables in a garden.
Not going according to plan
Hello, dropped off the divide and headed
You know how things sometimes
"don't go the way you planned"? I
mean, like, you're preparing
Thanksgiving dinner for sixty peo-
ple and two hours before they show
up, the sewer backs up. Or the well
quits working. Or you plan on
delivering calves on Thursday and
you wake up to a heavy rain or
snow and impas, sable roads.
Or maybe you're leaving for
work at just the right moment and
you can't be late. And as you drive
out of the driveway you notice the
fuel light is on and your spouse for-
got to fill the car. And you're wor-
ried about the fuel and a tire goes
flat. And the wind is blowing and it
is cold and you have never changed
a tire. And there is no spare in the
outfit. I hate days like that.
That is kind of the way our
roundup went yesterday. Oh, it was
going to be simple. We had fixed
the water the day before. The cows
would be on fiesh pasture, wheat
fields, and alfalfa for two weeks
before weaning. All we had to do
was drive down to the camp, trot
around these cows, and trail them
up the hill. Simple. A family pic-
nic.
Sure, the kids could help. Evan
and RJ are live and three. It would
only be about live miles. Nothing
could go wrong. I guess nobody
told the cows that.
As we got them gathered and
started up the road, a bunch of the
wilder ones got in the lead. I mean
As we got them
gathered and start-
ed up the road, a
bunch of the wilder
ones got in the
lead. I mean they
were at a trot.
they were at a trot. Not caring
where they went, but in a hurry to
get there. Being the oldest and wis-
est of the crew, I was up near the
lead. A fat man on a fat horse. But
making up for it with knowledge. I
knew how a cow thinks.
Yee Haw! 1 put the spurs to
Zippidy and followed the wild
bunch up a draw. This was living!
But the hill got steeper, and the
cows didn't weaken. I bent most of
the herd back and followed the rest
up a cliff. It got steep. I had to lead
Zip the last little bit. l mounted up
and loped over to the edge to check
the rest of the herd. Shirley and the
two boys were riding drag and look-
ing like they had that end under
control. The lead cows were turning
up another draw and going the
wrong way. I had no idea where the
rest of the crew was. 1 had my own
cows to follow.
I saw the tail of one as they
for the road. They should be good.
Not. They hit the road at a trot, and
turned up the next draw heading
north. We were trying to go east.
Like the "Man from Snowy River",
I shot off that cliff. Only to get to
the bottom as the last cow went by.
Over the river and through the
woods... Whoops, wrong song.
Well, 1 followed those cows for an
hour. I was not enjoying ranching as
much as 1 had hoped. But at last I
got them to the road. But no one
was there to bend them. And they
headed back down where we had
started. I let out a Rebel
yell...Actually I cursed. And hit a
hard gallop to bend them. A fat man
on a fat horse, By the time I quit, 1
had cows scattered in groups of one
for eight miles. I was hot, my horse
was played out, and the cows were
done.
But I was back where I had
started. So 1 jumped Zip in the trail-
er and headed for camp. Most of the
crew was there. Dinner was on. The
boys had made the longest trail
drive of there young lives. They had
gotten all the cattle except the ones
Grandpa had lost.
But hot coffee and sandwiches
made the deal alright. And then
Sandy came down from the house.
When we turned the water on for
the cows, there was no water for the
house.
"'Kick 'em out boys, we'll have
to do it again another day'?"
Later, Dean
Garvey goes AWOL as town fights terrorism
"1 escaped fl'om being kidnapped
and I'm ready to give my September
l lth report," announced Chief Alert
Officer Garvey El-fald as he burst dra-
matically into the quarterly meeting
of the Comnmnity Homeland
Security Committee. The town's
assembled 14 electors were shocked
to see him.
"Where've you been for a
month'?" Holger l)anske asked blunt-
ly. "I was defending my post on the
dump ground road for two days wait-
ing for the all-clear and heard noth-
ing."
"It's a long story," Garvey said as
pulled up a perilous chair, the safe
ones having been taken. "I was sitting
guard out in front of the hall watching
for suspicious activity when this guy
pulled up in a 1949 International
truck towing a combine on a big trail-
el'."
"Now 1 think to myself," Garvey
continued, "that if a terrorist want to
blow up something in farm country,
he would pretend to be a farmer. Who
would ever suspect a combine loaded
with explosives'? So I grabbed my
rusty but trusty 20-gauge, arrested
him, and put him in conlinement,"
Garvey reported.
"'What conlinement?" asked Einar
Torvald. "'We haven't had confine-
ment since the jail got blowed over in
the 1946 tornado."
"Well, I locked him in the
Sergeant Smirkski Memorial Park
outhouse." Garvey explained.
"That was over a month ago,"
Chairman Ork Dorken observed. "Is
he still there'?"
"Well, he shouted through the door
that he used to be a lawyer but found
out he could make more money ttnn-
ing and that I violated his civil rights
under cover of law and that he would
sue me personally for everything I
got.'"
"Under color of law? Cheap
lawyer talk!" exclaimed Josh
Dvorcheck.
"No, the guy was right," interject-
Contagion
ed Little Jimmy, the only town resi-
dent ineligible for Medicare.
"And what do you know about it?"
asked Orville Jordan condescending-
ly.
"Well, l'm an online student with
the Donald Trump School of Law and
have only six months left, counting
my real life experiences," Jimmy
responded.
"What life experiences?" asked
Josh.
"1 was a witness in county court
when that drunk from Centerton ran
over Old Sievert's dog," Jimmy
explained. "I got 40 credits for that."
"Hey, I'm giving a report on why I
ended up in Nebraska," Garvey insist-
ed. "This combine guy said his truck
driver ran off with the LightsOut bar-
maid and unless I drove truck for him
in Nebraska he would sue me. So I
went."
"Sounds like AWOL to me,"
Holger speculated.
"Did terrorists attack the town
while I wits gone?" Garvey asked.
"No, but Street Light No.3 is gone
and the south part of town is in the
dark," reported Orville Jordan, the
retired railroad depot agent.
"What happened'?" Garvey
queried.
"lngver was on guard across fi'om
the weigh station and fell asleep,"
reported Orville. "Dawg barked,
lngver's shotgun went off, and the
best part of the world got dark."
"Wow!" Garvey exclaimed.
"Oh! That's not all," Josh contin-
ued. "Madeleine panicked, called 911
and Sheriff Spurios came with three
squad cars wailing. Most of the men
came running with guns and scared
the bejeebers out of everybody,
including the sheriff. We became our
own terrorists."
"I'm glad I was in Nebraska,"
Garvey concluded.
With that remark, Chairman
Dorken banged his Coke bottle on the
table.
"Meeting is adjourned until next
time whefi we might consider
impeaching the alert officer for aban-
doning his post in a time of emer-
gency," Ork announced sternly.
As the electors drifted out of the
hall, Orville sidled up to Little Jimmy,
looked furtively around the room and
asked: "Would impeachmen t make us
liable under color of law?" ....
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