Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
>>
>>Shameless plug: rather than guessing whether US gallons, 
>>Imperial gallons, New Imperial gallons, Elbonian gallons... 
>>use liters (at least in international settings)! There's only 
>>one of them... :)
> 
> 
> If you specified fuel economy in terms of km/litre in the UK you would get a blank stare from most of the motoring population, MPG is by far the most commonly used units over here.  Very few people would have an idea about what is a good or bad number in those units (including me, until I converted it!).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mike

Our cars have one "non metric" dash setting, switching to that setting 
and looking at the mpg display alway invokes a "that sucks", until I 
remember it is US gallons....

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