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To: Moominoid who wrote (69993)7/21/2008 10:24:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
More weights and measures fun. NZ and Oz petrol prices are about the same then at US$6.30 per US gallon.

So Americans shouldn't be grizzling too much at only $4 per gallon.

Life would be so much simpler if barrels, gallons of various sizes, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc were all changes to litres. And miles changed to metres/kilometres.

etc...

I wonder how many wars, disasters and how much simple economic inefficiency have resulted from weights and measures confusion, especially when combined with using different languages.

Gung Ho,
Mqurice
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