> >PS    $1.14 per gallon - eat your heart out POMs!
>
> Well at 70.9p/litre for unleaded at about US$1.45/GBP, and around 4.45
> l/imperial gallon (don't know what it is to a US gallon), that's about
> US1.02/litre, about US$4.57/imp gallon. Its not called "rip
> off Britain" for
> nothing. 4 Star and Diesel are even more.

1 US gallon = 8 * 16flOz = 3.785l
1 Imperial gallon = 8 * 20 US flOz = 4.546l

(and, apparently, 1 US fl Oz = 1.0408 Imperial fl Oz, which wasn't one I
knew before)

Hence bemused British tourists getting something they don't quite recognise
as a pint in the US...

Peter
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