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It's easier if the pump sells in liters, which is not true in the US. You have 20 gallons, and 20MPG gets you 400 miles, that is an easy calculation. All you h

It's easier if the pump sells in liters, which is not true in the US. You have 20 gallons, and 20MPG gets you 400 miles, that is an easy calculation. All you have to do is to throw away all the metric unit.

jfk13 7y ago
20MPG?! You must be driving an American car. ;)
- colechristensen 7y ago
  I drove my parents farm truck for a couple of weeks to commute because my car had broken down and boy was that expensive. 12 mpg if I remember correctly. The gas pump at the station would stop at $100 and the tank wouldn't be full.
  - Aperocky 7y ago
    LOL, it sounds like you're driving a semi to work.
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- Aperocky 7y ago
  Yeah it's a RAM1500 with V8 hemi engine, tbh, it almost never hit 20 mpg.. It occasionally hits 19mpg if I'm driving interstate
gambiting 7y ago
Well of course, but the article was specifically talking about the madness that is the fact that all UK fuel stations sell fuel in litres, but all cars have their fuel consumption advertised in miles per gallon, even though gallons aren't used anywhere in the UK for anything except for this, and your average < 40 years old person will have no intuitive understanding of how much a gallon actually is. But UK is full of nonsense like this, kilograms are commonly used for everything, but human weight is given in stones(wtf is a stone), metres are again a common unit, but somehow kilometres for distances aren't. Your own height is given in feet and inches, and my satnav when set to miles gives me turn directions in.....yards(wtf is a yard). I have never heard anyone use yards for literally anything ever in the UK. With furniture/room sizes all dimensions are given in milimetres and centimetres but you'd commonly say you cracked the window open by an inch. Cars use miles per hour for the speedos, but trains use kilometres per hour. I think I could keep going on and on and on about this.
nephrite 7y ago
Much better would be selling fuel in kilograms because summer liter and winter liter are two quite different quantity of fuel.

jfk13 7y ago

20MPG?! You must be driving an American car. ;)

colechristensen 7y ago
I drove my parents farm truck for a couple of weeks to commute because my car had broken down and boy was that expensive. 12 mpg if I remember correctly. The gas pump at the station would stop at $100 and the tank wouldn't be full.
- Aperocky 7y ago
  LOL, it sounds like you're driving a semi to work.
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Aperocky 7y ago
Yeah it's a RAM1500 with V8 hemi engine, tbh, it almost never hit 20 mpg.. It occasionally hits 19mpg if I'm driving interstate

gambiting 7y ago

Well of course, but the article was specifically talking about the madness that is the fact that all UK fuel stations sell fuel in litres, but all cars have their fuel consumption advertised in miles per gallon, even though gallons aren't used anywhere in the UK for anything except for this, and your average < 40 years old person will have no intuitive understanding of how much a gallon actually is. But UK is full of nonsense like this, kilograms are commonly used for everything, but human weight is given in stones(wtf is a stone), metres are again a common unit, but somehow kilometres for distances aren't. Your own height is given in feet and inches, and my satnav when set to miles gives me turn directions in.....yards(wtf is a yard). I have never heard anyone use yards for literally anything ever in the UK. With furniture/room sizes all dimensions are given in milimetres and centimetres but you'd commonly say you cracked the window open by an inch. Cars use miles per hour for the speedos, but trains use kilometres per hour. I think I could keep going on and on and on about this.

nephrite 7y ago

Much better would be selling fuel in kilograms because summer liter and winter liter are two quite different quantity of fuel.