Once there will be no more digits to use for displaying price per gallon they will be forced to display price per liter as it still could fit
Once there will be no more digits to use for displaying price per gallon they will be forced to display price per liter as it still could fit
I thought about this too while I was filling up my tank yesterday, but I think they would just switch to quarts since that is just 1/4 of a gallon
Pints.
That’s right. Europe uses liters because that’s their biggest liquid measurement. Ours is gallons, so we’ll just split that by 4. You think MAGAs are going to go along with switching to a foreign commie system for our beautiful American gas?
Let me introduce you to quettalitre, 10^30 litre. a.k.a. cubic gigametre
We tried the metric thing in the 1970s - people hated it. Some things stuck like alcohol measurement in ml. Most didn’t .
Anyone who thought changing the measurement system wasn’t going to be met with resistance was delusional. People hate change. Sometimes, change is better. As someone who went through it in Canada, there was a lot of disgruntlement from the previous generation, but the rest of us just moved on (mostly), and being able to just use decimals everywhere instead of base 2 fractions here, decimals there, multiples of 12 over there was absolutely refreshing. Now my kids barely even use imperial and just shake their heads when the oldsters talk about it.
And I’d still rather measure people’s weight in pounds than in stone like a monster.
That’s a really great perspective I never had. I only see it as a kid growing up in the 70s usa. But you folks got through it and we didn’t. That’s telling on our stubbornness at the very least. Btw I never had more trouble with alcohol than the time I visited … asked for a pint. Do you mean a Mickey? Chuckles.
I can switch between metric and imperial with ease. Like many Canadians, I still do oven temperatures in F, height in feet and inches, and body weight in pounds. But I have a number of coworkers who use metric only, mostly immigrants and young people, and I will tailor my units for the people I’m talking to.