Day 1: Carpooling

By Tiffany Craig Investigative Reporter
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How am I going to get to work without driving? On the first day of our series, I'm carpooling Day 1: Carpooling
Published: Fri, July 04, 2008 - 5:20 pm Last Updated: Mon, July 07, 2008 - 5:03 pm
Tiffany Craig
Tiffany Craig
News 5 is taking a new approach to tackling pain at the pump!

Our solution is simple.. Tiffany Craig is not buying gas for a month.

While most of you are celebration Independence Day, I'm losing mine! I have to get around this month without buying gas.

After Putting It In Park Thursday night, I called a friend/co-worker to pick me up.

Jessica Taloney agreed to swing by my place on July 4th. "What time are you coming in tomorrow?" I asked.

Jessica responded. "I've got to be in a little early. So, I need to come by your house about 7:45AM. Ok?"

Everything was set... except my alarm!

Friday morning I overslept. In my scramble to get photographer Arnell Hamilton in place for our ride, I was half-ready.

Jessica politely pointed that out. "Hey. Nice hair! That's not TV hair Tiff." I replied with sarcasm. "Thank you. I didn't have time to do my hair."

Day 1 of Putting It In Park is carpooling. As I see it, I'm on Jessica's route to work so she didn't waste any extra gas on me!

We talked about some options for next week. She offered to let me use her rollerblades as long as I wore a helmet camera.

Reporter Steve Alexander mentioned the night before that he would give me a piggy back ride!

I need all the ideas I can get because I have 18 more (work) days left of Putting It In Park.

If you have a transportation idea, email me by



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carl , lol for sure. a picture of old goat wearing one of the old time pilot hats

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We gota get an artist to add a few things to the picture of the man in the lawn chair being lifted by balloon’s a hose,maybe a 5 gallon gas can and a fan and send it to OLD GOAT. Maybe call it the Boeing special.grin

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carl, lol i saw it and thought could be boeings future tanker. only thing missing was a garden hose and plastic bags for fuel. of course some battery operated fans for that extra mach speed.

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I saw that and it made me think about that priest in south America that was going to do that and go across,I believe,some water for a good long distance. I never did hear what happened to him. It’s a wonder dirigibles haven’t made a comeback for mass transportation, of course you would have to be not in a big hurry to get anywhere.

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carl, here you go, Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons. could this be a new airline in the makingl.

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Wish I had one of those gas guzzlers and could afford to fill it occasionally. I’m going to have to wait until I can get something i can afford to drive, like one of those $3 electric recharging cars. I’ll probably have a good long wait on that!

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now this is what i am talking about, bring on them gas guzzlers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>In less than a year, Stohler and his wife, Lorene, 82, have become millionaires from the production of one well on their land near Dunn Center, a mile or so from the sod home where Oscar grew up. A second well has begun producing on their property and another is being drilled — all aimed at the Bakken shale formation, a rich deposit that the U.S. Geological Survey calls the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed.

i am getting my shovel out for sure >>>>>>>>>I have heard, anecdotally, that there is a millionaire a day being created in North Dakota,” said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.

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thanks carl that was nice, but its ok. but boy was i impressed with the police. they were so nice i am going to call the chiefs office monday and tell them how nice they were.

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If there’s something we can do to help give a holler!

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well i just hope that ambulance i am waiting on does not use batteries. can not wait to see how much it is now.

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