QUOTE(tricky77puzzle @ Jun 5 2008, 10:42 PM) $9.51 USD per US gallon becomes about £5.70 per imperial gallon, which is still a lot. Even in the US it's still $4.25/gallon. See? Not so big anymore. Anyway, what's this with the use of the word "imperial"? Does it denote size or quality?

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Imperial is a measurement system, so size. The main other alternative is Metric

Imperial - The US measurement system (foot, inches, etc). This used to be more popular then the metric system, mostly because it came out long before metric. Mainly, it's difficult to convert from one to another, as it's not "exact". For example, there are 12 inches in 1 foot. Minus having to reteach everyone, I do *not* see the point of the US keeping this system.

Metric - Practically what everyone else uses (cm, metres, kilo, etc). A lot more accurate and easier. 100cm in 1 metre.

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Ah, but a US gallon isn't equal to an imperial gallon:



Then of course there are two US gallons (liquid and dry) and even then, there are sometimes different definitions of a gallon for different substances.

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Gas is super expensive... haha mines on september 18 ;P might not be two months or whatever i said, im a slow one who cant add! but yea... i think i might be on a better train than you... my parents are buying me an "09 car when i learn how to drive [which will be.. HAHA never, yea right giselle driving] haha..

and all of the sudden the "war for oil" makes sence and i completely support it haha....

ill ride my bike until the prices go back to a dollard or two dollards haha..


do you have myspace.. & are you hot? ;p

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AHAHAHAA!!! EIGHT DOLLERS FOR GAS??! YOUR HAVING A LAUGH GOVERNER!

Today I was on my bonny way down to't white rose. *That's a mall for you over the pond* and I hopped on the bus and lo and behold what did I see? Petrol was up to one pound twenty two point two pence! Diesel was one pound thirty point nine for a litre!

That makes "gas" prices here a good eleven and a half bucks to the gallon! Eight dollars for gas is literally nothing.


If you think about all the work that goes in to getting oil out of the ground shipping it to the shore shipping that to a refinery turning that into petrol or whatever and then some other stuff happens then it comes all the way to us. We are actually getting it pretty cheap considering that it's worth so much and they do so much work for it.

 

 

 

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