[Graeme]

HR 2326 and the Doomsday Book

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ate 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.

[doddington]

So Obama is going to require cars and trucks to average 3.5. mpg by 2016. Such irresonsibility. Is he really that uninformed? Is he living in fantasy land? To be generous, he's going to be "a day late and a dollar short". The only practical way to address the looming collision between supply and demand is to use basic economics and self interest, in a way that puts money into U.S. citizens' pockets rather than into OPEC's pockets, as outlined in http://www.conserve-oil.com. $7,000 per household, just think about it!

[Jotapay]

What does Obama have to do with William the Conqueror?

[Chuckmak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'W')hat does Obama have to do with William the Conqueror?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'W')hat does Obama have to do with William the Conqueror?

[Chuckmak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'W')hat does Obama have to do with William the Conqueror?

[mos6507]

How many other bills like this has Barltett tried to get going? Is this going to be another case where he monologues to empty pews?

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'W')hat does Obama have to do with William the Conqueror?

[Chuckmak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'W')hat does Obama have to do with William the Conqueror?

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', 'Y')ou sound a little upset there, buddy.

[Chuckmak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', 'Y')ou sound a little upset there, buddy.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chuckmak', 'a')nd you got defensive and hurt about it.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '
')My question still stands, what in blazes does William the Conqueror have to do with Obama and this bill and some Doomsday Book? There is no connection so why was it posted? It makes no sense.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'I')t's called topic-drift and you're just making matters worse. Just let it go, man.