Gas I gasped!

[paul bruesch]

He wrote about *imperial* gallons, which is ~4.55 liters/litres and, I
believe, is 5 quarts. It comes about due to it being the volume and English
measure of 10 pounds of distilled water. Seems to me it oughtta be 5 quints,
not quarts

Anon

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Don <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca> wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> Your math is fine but a US gallon is a mere 3.78 liters. Here in Regina
> today it is 1.319 which equates to $4.98 Cdn for one US gallon--or more or
> less $5.00 per liter given the current exchange rates.
>
> At 12:52 PM 5/15/2008 -0500, you wrote:
> >     Takes roughly  5 litres for an imperial gal. ( little larger than  an
> >american gal ). Sooooooo, if        I can remember when gas was 29c a
> >gallon. A friend  in the auto business said, when prices started to
> >increase almost daily, that  when price gets to $ 75c a gal.  " WRONG."
> >They will never          Carl        ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> >   Will    Wickham    To: Pianotech List    Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
> >11:41    AM   Subject: Re: Gas I gasped!
> >I'll second the Prius plug. I've had mine just under a year.    While I
> >don't think my mileage here in the north-east equals Terry's (the cold
> >winter seems to lower the efficiency for some reason) I'm still right
> >around    50 MPG. Until recently a fill up has been less than $30 and I've
> >been    refilling less than half as often as I was with the Caravan.
> >   will
> >
> >         On May 14, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Farrell wrote:             Gasoline
> -
> >that's just so  yesterday.......            over the past two+      years.
> >         At least the high fuel efficiency dampens the      sting.
> > Working on an all-electric solution (electric      motorcycle).......
> >     Terry Farrell            ----- Original Message -----
> >        Just        wanted to complain to someone who would know how I
> >feel.       Shawn
> >
> >
> >
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> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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>
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