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Some gas stations "out of diesel" as prices surge
(www.newsweek.com)
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The gas stations probably need to install new signs that will display four digits so they can charge over $10 per gallon
Nah. They'll just do what the rest of the world does, and start charging per litre. Your 12.399/g is now only 3.109/L.
Friend, I don't think you understand just how much we hate the metric system. We'd stop driving before we measured fuel in liters.
It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)
But.. yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.
It's also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959.
International Yard and Pound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
The temporary solution in 1980s Germany, when prices climbed over 1 DM/l, was to charge per 0.5 l. So they might charge per 0.5 gal now.
Please, please, please. Per pottle. Of course.
Oh sorry. Of course. Please forgive my ignorance. I wasn't aware of that.
Lol!! I use metric daily, and I'm 100% with you on this hahahaha
But you will start selling in quarts.
Lol.. Would be quite funny if this is how US changes to metric system
You just put a 1 to the left of the sign.
Surely you will never need any other numbers there.
Surely not. Nope, they’ll never need more than 3 digits…. Wait, what’s that?
Getting there for sure. $8.something a gallon for diesel around here.
It's $7.50+ here in Eastern Washington. I drove to Idaho for the slightly better rate and still cost almost $200 to fill up my truck. I'm ever so thankful that I have kept it in good running condition and basically bulletproofed the 7.3l engine. I got 18.5 mpg and that's really good. But still, I don't think I can keep it up for long. It's a damn shame.
I would have at least hoped they'd take the opportunity to get rid of the asinine 1/10¢, but apparently not!