From: Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 11, 2001 14:26 Subject: [USMA:14320] mi/gal >On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:11:58 > kilopascal wrote: >>2001-07-11 >>... >>It isn't that amazing when you realize no one actually measures their fuel >>consumption. They just go by some figure that was parrotted to they by some >>auto salesman or someone else... > >True, however, I do calculate my fuel consumption all the time to make sure my car is in good running condition. Since I always fill it up, it's easier for me to do it via km/l, instead of 100 km/l. The resultant is the reciprocal of fuel consumption. Duncan I take my odometer kilometerage and divide that by the number of liters I put in the gas tank. Most of the time I don't even use a calculator and obtain a good approximation by fiddling with the numbers so that my mental calc can be easier. Example, if my reading is 548.7, I just adjust that to 550. Then if my liter value was 33.1 I just take 100/3 and get the final result as 16.5 km/l! ;-) > >Marcus
