Unity ROCKS not!!!

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Tue May 10 18:03:27 UTC 2011


On 10 May 2011 18:50, Ernest Doub <hideserted at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 10 May 2011 08:54, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 31 mpg for a 2010 4-cylinder 2010 car. Thats terrible. The US could do with
>>> catching up with the rest of the world in this area.
>>
>> Remember that their gallons are smaller than real gallons.  But even
>> so, you are right.
>>
>> Colin
>
> US Gallon = 4 quarts
> Imperial Gallon = 5 quarts
> Mileage in Imperial Gallons = 38.75
> How does that contrast with current european[real world] mileage?

Your "quart" is different, too.

Imperial quarts are 4 imperial pints.

Which is why in the civilised world - i.e, everywhere except the USA -
we all use metric now.


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