[AT] OT Gasoline prices

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Wed Mar 17 06:00:59 PST 2004


Sure makes the math more interesting!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Gray" <robgray at epix.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gasoline prices


> 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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