Let's tag this [OT]: please...

Dale (currently paying $1.02 in Nebraska!  8-) )
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Bond, Peter wrote:

> > >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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