Bad luck old bean :-(. A litre is about the same as the little US
quart.
Chris
On Friday, Jul 25, 2003, at 20:02 Europe/London, Piers Hemy wrote:
I did it myself.
Once.
Only realized when the trigger cut out with a click - tank full. Then
I
noticed the word "unleaded" on the trigger.
I had to get a tow off the motorway (freeway) to have the tank
drained. On
the way, the tow truck driver showed the point about 100 yards (300
feet)
short of the junction (off-ramp) where those who haven't realized their
mistake run out of road - the petrol (gasoline) washes out the seals
on the
diesel fuel system, which therefore has to be stripped to have the
seals
replaced. It gets expensive. Though I thought my misadventure was bad
enough, because it cost me sixty litres (liters) of petrol (gasoline).
Which in turn reminds me of the US tourists I overheard on the train,
noting
the prices displayed at an Exxon station we were passing "Gee, the gas
isn't
so much more expensive after all - 80 pence is about $1.30 isn't it?".
I
hadn't the will to explain that we price in litres (liters) not
gallons (and
if we did, they would be Imperial, not US gallons), so - for the
record -
gasoline here (UK) costs about $4.50 per US gallon. And I expect
Roger will
chime in to tell us it is even more in Denmark (but you don't have many
hills to climb there Roger).
Cheer up, it makes that 50/2 Macro look a bit cheaper.
Piers
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