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 PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26425] Has benzine ever sold by liters in TX?
Hi,
just seen a movie on TV, guess 15 years old.
They drove to a gas station where prices showed 33,9 Cent and 31,9 Cent.
I guess it is price by liter, isn't it?
bye
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
It was in 1979 that gasoline pumps in Canada were converted to dispense in litres. So the site may have been Canada, although the price of 31.9 cents seem to me to be a bit low.
Bill Potts asked in USMA 26430:
Bob Price wrote:
In the early eighties I though some gas companies were selling gas in liters for awhile. Unfortunately, the effort failed.
It wasn't a genuine effort. At the time, many gas pumps were designed for a maximum unit price of $9.999. When gas went over $1 per gallon, they had to adjust the size of the unit, so they chose liter, rather than, for example 0.5 gallon. That was a good thing. (I think it was Shell that chose liters. Some oil companies may have used half gallons. Can anyone remember?)
My memory confirms that. Shell is an Abnglo-Dutch company. -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
