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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:10:03 +1100
From: Peter Wilkins <wilkinspnospamail.com.au>
Subject: Re: 9-5 petrol mileage?


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:48:34 +0000, Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> wrote : >In the UK - fuel is sold by the litre and mass is measured in kg and = tonnes. > >It's just the US that's dragging its feet. > >The UK does admittedly use 'tradional' units for some everday = measurements as a >legacy measure but these are normally accompanied by their metric = equivalents. > >For some curious reason we still use miles. I wouldn't object to = converting to km >but I hate to think what the cost of changing road signs would be ! > The UK really is screwed up, can't make up it's mind between imperial and metric, so uses a mix! At least the US is consistently inconsistent! Mind you, our metric system is not all it's cracked up to be, with some of the standard measurements we are forced to use - why oh why did we ever accept that stupid litres per 100 kilometre for fuel consumption?? It is a totally impracticable measurement. For example, your tank is 1/4 full, it holds 40 litres, so you've got 10 litres left. Quick, while you are driving, how far can you go before you have to refuel at 7.2 litres per 100Km? Not easy, eh, unless you are a maths genius! Now if we had used Km/litre instead, you could quickly and mentally calculate 13.9x10 =3D 139 Km. But of course it doesn't really matter as we are driving Saab 9-5's: so we just roll the SID over to DTG and read 139 km off the screen! --=20 Regards, Peter Wilkins

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