Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Doug]

On 05/10/2011 01:50 PM, Ernest Doub 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
>>
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> US Gallon = 4 quarts
> Imperial Gallon = 5 quarts
> Mileage in Imperial Gallons = 38.75
> How does that contrast with current european[real world] mileage?
>
We in the US have *real* gallons.  The Brits re-imagined the pint to be 
20 oz. because somebody there wanted to get more
warm beer in their pint than they were getting, and since the gallon is 
8 pints, the British gallon is now 5 *real* quarts.  --doug

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