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arenean Donating Member (230 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 09:40 AM
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5. We do
I just recalculated it back to gallons, as I know you don't use litres in the States

(1 litre = 0.2642 US gallons)
(1 litre = 0.22 UK gallons)

(£1 = $1.95 as of today)
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  -Nearly $15/ gallon! arenean  Jun-17-08 09:35 AM   #0 
  - Damn, does our exchange rate suck that bad?  phantom power   Jun-17-08 09:36 AM   #1 
  - I think a liter is only a little bit more than a quarter of a gallon.  Fridays Child   Jun-17-08 09:40 AM   #4 
     - Oh, the initial post had a typo (gal instead of L)  phantom power   Jun-17-08 09:45 AM   #9 
        - Thanks!  arenean   Jun-17-08 09:45 AM   #10 
  - Do you mean L1.99 per litre? That's the only way the math works  Liberal Gramma   Jun-17-08 09:37 AM   #2 
  - Do they still sell petrol by the gallon in UK? I thought they went metric  whistle   Jun-17-08 09:38 AM   #3 
  - We do  arenean   Jun-17-08 09:40 AM   #5 
  - remember that the U.S. gallon is different from the Imperial gallon  whistle   Jun-17-08 09:46 AM   #11 
     - Changing day by day..  arenean   Jun-17-08 09:54 AM   #15 
        - Okay thanks, that makes more sense now  whistle   Jun-17-08 10:02 AM   #16 
  - "Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us”"  htuttle   Jun-17-08 09:42 AM   #7 
     - Best. Movie. Ever. n/t  here_is_to_hope   Jun-17-08 10:11 AM   #17 
  - Wow, over 70 mpg! Wish American car companies would learn to make vehicles like that.  paxmusa   Jun-17-08 09:41 AM   #6 
  - Can you buy Citroen in the States still?  arenean   Jun-17-08 09:44 AM   #8 
  - I think Citroen left U.S. market over two decades ago, no dealerships left  whistle   Jun-17-08 09:48 AM   #13 
  - Nash Metropolitan back in the 1950s got pretty good mileage 35mpg  whistle   Jun-17-08 09:50 AM   #14 
  - The formula is simple  Howzit   Jun-18-08 04:18 AM   #20 
  - lucky you with a 70 MPG Citroen!  BareNakedLiberal   Jun-17-08 09:47 AM   #12 
  - Ouch! How have things changed since this started? Are food prices up? More people  GreenPartyVoter   Jun-17-08 01:18 PM   #18 
     - Not really...  arenean   Jun-18-08 02:33 AM   #19 
 

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