[AT] OT Gasoline prices

Rob Gray robgray at epix.net
Wed Mar 17 04:15:19 PST 2004


Maybe we're backwards here in the U.S., but I like the system we use. 
Makes life more interesting.... lol

Ralph Goff wrote:

>Rob, officially, we went to the metric system some 30 years ago but most of
>us in my age group are more comfortable using the old imperial gallon when
>we talk mileage or fuel consumption. Sure our vehicles are all calibrated
>with metric speedometers (except my old 71 Chev and the Internationals)  and
>we have kind of gotten used to measuring distance in kilometres but I still
>do that imperial conversion in my head when somebody speaks to me in metric.
>I can't help it, I was educated in the imperial system of weights and
>measures, still speak farenheit degrees of temperature. Maybe I'm just
>stubborn and don't want to change.
>
>Ralph in Sask.
>http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/lgoff/latestpage.html
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