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February 18th 15, 03:19 PM
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On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 8:44:53 AM UTC-6, wrote:
Nigel, your mpg numbers are obviously based on British gallons which are kind of an inflated type of imperial gallons (too lazy to look it up right now). I think our mpg values would be 10-20% lower than your numbers. Why can't we all go metric??? And report in kilometers per liter? 
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February 18th 15, 04:42 PM
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On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 8:19:31 AM UTC-7, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 8:44:53 AM UTC-6, wrote: Nigel, your mpg numbers are obviously based on British gallons which are kind of an inflated type of imperial gallons (too lazy to look it up right now). I think our mpg values would be 10-20% lower than your numbers. Why can't we all go metric??? And report in kilometers per liter? "Inflated imperial gallons" - don't you mean deflated American gallons! I expect a pint of beer to be 20 fluid ounces, not 16! Mike
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February 18th 15, 10:48 PM
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On 2/18/2015 9:42 AM, Mike the Strike wrote: snip I expect a pint of beer to be 20 fluid ounces, not 16! Mike Best argument yet that I've heard for using any sort of Euro measurement! -- Dan Marotta
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