At 20:00 25/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
>45MPG on the open highway and about 31 around
>town.
At first sight, the same as me, but aren't U.S. gallons smaller? I thought
you had 16 fluid ounce pints, therefore 1 gallon = 16 x 8 = 128 fl. oz.,
and we had
20 fluid ounce pints, therefore 1 gallon = 20 x 8 = 160 fl. oz.
Therefore, if I used U.S. gallons, I'd be getting 36 on the open road and
24.8mpg round town! At about $4.70 per U.S. gallon, if my theory of the
16oz pint is correct :-(
But perhaps I'm getting confused (duh!) because I haven't been to the U.S.
since seven years ago, and in the U.K. petrol has only been sold by the
litre for many years, even though no-one EVER talks or thinks about miles
per litre or even kilometres per litre, always m.p.g.! Does this make
sense to anyone?
David Thurgate http://www.uranus.co.uk/M_cycles.htm
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