[Coco] Up Chicago Way

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Tue Apr 12 00:14:13 EDT 2005


On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:43:35 +1000, Bob Devries <bdevries at gil.com.au>  
wrote:

> I said:
>> and AU$0.80 to the US$.
>
> OOps, that should have read: US$0.77 to AU$1. And a US gallon is 3.78  
> litres, so.... I'm paying... lesse now....US$2.90 per US gallon.
>
> Sorry for the confusion: The gallon here was 4.5 litres, obviously  
> different from the US one. Of course we are (almost) thoroughly  
> metricated here :)

     Ah, yes... the old 'Imperial' gallon vs. the 'US gallon'. Had the same  
problem here, back when we switched to metric in the 1970's...

L. Curtis Boyle



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