Late in the year 1085, William I (William the Conquer) of England ordered his counsellors to conduct a kingdom-wide survey to find out how much property and livestock each landholder had and what it was worth. The book containing those tax rolls became known through the writings of Richard fitzNagel in 1179 as the Domesday Book, from whence we get the corrupted term Doomsday: the "Day of Judgement."
On the same day President Barack Obama announced the federal government's new, unified fuel economy standards, Congressmen Roscoe Barlett (R, MD) and Eliot Engel (D, NY) introduced HR 2326, otherwise known as the Oil Savings Act.
The passage of HR 2326 sets the nation on record that peak oil is an inevitable event that must be prepared for by setting oil savings goals starting with 2.5 million barrels a day by 2015, or nearly 1 billion barrels annually. Not coincidentally, President Obama's announcement today is estimated to save 1.8 billion barrels "over the lifetime of the vehicles sold in the next five years." Achieving the even more demanding goals for 2025 and 2030 will require a major shift away from petroleum use in motor vehicles well beyond that envisioned in the President's initiatives.
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