Petrol less than £1 a gallon!!!!!!

I suggest you contemplate the implications of the sentence 'The cost per
journey is useful'. Fuel is not the only cost of a journey and it may often
be a relatively unimportant part.

For you it may be. However, you are suggesting that people in general will
find it easier to convert from the unit of sale of fuel into gallons and,
from that and the price per unit of sale, work out how much they can afford
to buy. From what I see of how people buy at filling stations, many, if not
most, of them seem to end up with neat round numbers on the amount to pay.
That suggests they are buying on the total cost of the transaction, which is
probably the easiest way to apply a budget.

Colin Bignell

 

From a 'poetic' point of view the metric system is horrible.
I cannot think of any songs which use metric measurements,
apart perhaps for the band 10cc.
(Mind you I cant think of too many which use imperial either)

Maybe they are, but its easier for 'punters' to work in whole numbers
usually.
If the price is 9/4 I would bet £4 or £2 at 5/2. It makes it easier to work
out if you are 'up' or 'down' as I don't carry a till around with me.
Its hard enough backing horses without having to do long multiplication
in your head.

£36 +£7.20 =£43.20. not too much trouble.(43.08), I could
*never* do 54*78.9 in my head.

£36 and 144 shillings £43 and 4 shillings your 12 shillings is
a bit out its 11.8 but it is fairly easy to work in old money
when you are used to it (which you would be, if you used it daily).

Thats fine if you enjoy lugging a computer around with you.

You probably have little idea what you are being charged

Well maybe old money perhaps, but imperial measured 'evolved'
they were not imposed by scientists so they are more human.
Granted adding a 0 to multiply by to is pretty easy.

I don't like being ripped of by banks for changing money if thats what
you mean. A buying rate, a selling rate and fixed fee thrown in as well.

10% of your money for doing next to nothing + another 10% when you
change it back.
I assume you like being robbed so much you leave your front door open
when you leaeve your house.
Mind you, I now have my 'big idea' to become a millionaire by sitting on
my fat arse and taking 10% of other peoples money, pretty clever idea eh?
Its so simple its genius.

 

In 'real life' is is pretty uncommon to have to convert from one imperial
unit to the other.
Common in pointless maths exercises perhaps, but not in real life.

Yes the 10 hour day, what a nightmare (daymare?). As the Dolly Parton song
goes
"Working 3.75 to 7.0833(re-occuring), what a way to make a
living"...........
Can you name me *one* song which mentions metric measurements?

Decimals are pretty unnatural, they just don't occur in nature.
Even computers prefer base 2. Musical scale is base 8?
We have 2 arms 2 legs 5 fingers (four and a thumb), I don't know of any
living thing
which has 10 of anything unless you double count fingers.
4 leaver clover, 8 legs on a spider, 6 on an insect. This is probably
because
atoms have 8 (or 2) electrons in a stable orbit.
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Maybe, but it is not easy to work with prices of 60, 70 and 80p
a litre.
When it becomes £1 a litre (not to far off no doubt) it will be far easier.
Roll on the day of the £1 litre of petrol.
£1 a litre in the UK £1 a gallon in the USA.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

 

You know nothing about betting.

 

Everyone who reads the Daily Mail, I would suspect.

 

That proves it then. Harleys don't have engines 'cos they aren't
measured in litres or CCs.

 

Ever heard of Canada?

 

I don't know how this thread started .. and I'm not reading every post ...
but could I point out that petrol in the UK costs well under a £ a gallon
.... it's just that the government adds 400% tax.

Jim

 

lovely rita, metre maid?

Squid

cheers,
clive

 

Depression spelt to fit in with the 9 letter IRC naming limit, it
just kind of stuck due to my sunny personality.

 

Ah that's just the yanks the way they build engines they should measure
them in cubic yards.

 

If you know you 75 or 80 times table it's easy, as I'm sure you remember learning
you tables of by hart and reciting them as a class the 80 is simple enough, and 75
isn't hard (I would say easier as 4L at 75p = £3 so just stick £30 for 40L).

 

Half a Groat! You rich bas***d! That's more than some of us earned in a
year.

 

A year? Bl**dy h*ll you're old!!!

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I don't buy milk in pints or litres. I buy them in Huge ones, normal ones,
thin ones and tiny ones.

I normally get petrol by the tenner or tank full.

Pete.

 

[1] Yes I know, it is measured in litres/100km on the continent.

Aghh Horrid!!

I hate the bastardised measurements like cm cl dm dl which confuse things

metres per litre would be correct

 

Not if the pub has litre glasses.

 

litre? to measure a quantity of a substance?

Surely you want metres per gram?

 

Which would probably be illegal in a pub.