Is daylight saving really linked to saving the whales ?
Step 1: George Bush (2005) and Richard Nixon (1973) both extended daylight saving in order to reduce the energy usage of the USA. Step 2: When daylight saving was first introduced into the US after WW1, the baseball league had record crowds and retailers had a bonanza from an hours extra trading. Sidebar: Daylight saving was first introduced in Germany in 1915, a year after the death of the first crusader for daylight saving in the UK – William Willett. Step 3: The first person to suggest that changing the operating hours of a city (Paris) would save a fortune in lamp oil was Benjamin Franklin (the America) in a satirical essay “An Economical Project” in 1784. Step 4: The oil for the good lamps in his time was from whales. In the early 1800’s it cost $2/gallon and in 1850 the usage was estimated at 5 million gallons per year for lighting and another 10 million gallons for train oil. Step 5: In 1849 a Canadian chemist, Dr Abraham Gesner, distilled kerosene for the first time. Step 6: In
