It's not false, it's just a shortened term for gasoline.
I hope you knew that and were just being overly picky.
At 20:31 2003-07-20 +0200, Michael-O wrote:
I know but I don't like to use the word "gas" because it is false.
It's a liquid not a gas!
:-(
Bill Potts wrote:
> About your subject line,
Nobody's suggesting you use "gas."
The word I used in my message was "gasoline."
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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I know but I don't like to use the word "gas" because it is false.
It's a liquid not a gas!
:-(
Bill Potts wrote:
> About your subject line, Michael.
>
> The English for Benzin is gasoline or petrol. Benzene (not benzine,
> which is not an English word) is a solvent, a cleaner, and a building
Actually it WAS the beginnings of a genuine effort, and was torpedoed by
the weaknesses of the Ford/Carter era. Shell was not only converting
mechanical pumps, which had the $1 limitation, but electronic pumps
which did not. Shell tried to get the US Metric Board to endorse an
industry-wide conve
Brian J. White wrote in USMA 26427:
Maybe it was set in Canada?
At 16:46 2003-07-19 -0400, Paul Trusten wrote:
The time must have been on or before 1973, and the unit the gallon.
From: "Michael-O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2003/07/19 Sat PM 03:34:11 EDT
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PR
>From the first page at http://www.footrule.org
Press release 30 June 2003
US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AGENCY TO ABOLISH USE OF LB/OZ AND PINT MEASURES
METRIC SYSTEM TO BE COMPULSORY FOR RETAIL TRANSACTIONS
A WARNING FROM ENGLAND: DON'T DO IT!
Under US government policy, transition to the me
