automotive fuel is sold by the liter but for some older folk a simple
calculation taking liters per 100 kilometers back to miles per gallon
makes more immediate sense.
On 10/10/2012 5:17 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> What the heck. I thought Canada was on the metric system. I would
> have thought their gasoline was sold by the liter but if sold by the
> gallon would be the imperial gallon. 67 mpg for a VW diesel sounds
> about right for an imperial gallon but pretty amazing for a US gallon.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Canadian "gallons" are totally screwed up.
>>
>> I do question the "miles" too. Maybe he's using the Canadian version
>> of nautical miles.
>>
>> AG
>>
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