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To: elmatador who wrote (51044)	6/7/2009 10:57:09 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219532

recently adopted metric system which replaced the Imperial system. Odd that.. Metrification a started in Canada in 1970.. I remember it being a pain as I was already in high school so I thought in imperial .. where only the inferior (smaller) US gallon etc was an issue for us :O) Almost like a language you spent a lot of time translating... but by 83 Metric should have been pretty entrenched .. Guess they delayed it for airplane refueling.. Half full error seems odd.. unless they fuel by weight and not volume.. ie.. like China reporting 'tons of oil'.. BTW I notice that many things up here have become lax in recent years.. Used to be government required HARD metric.. ie 250/500 g etc NOT 454 g (1 pound)... Now most stuff is back to crap like 942 ml etc.. probably using some US standard sizing in packaging etc.. but have not researched this annoyance which makes price comparisons a pain.. (maybe that's the real goal :O)