Louis wrote "France: Electricity: kWh Gas: kWh Water: cubic meter"
That is surprising, households buy water bottles from shops in liters, but the tap water is measured in cubic meters. Do they want to be purists. In DW-TV's (German TV) Motor program, they give the vehicle's trunk space in liters. I guess EU should intervene and set standards for these things before coming to USA in 2009. In India Electricity : kWh LPG Gas in cylinder : kg Water : liter Vegetable Oil : kg In my opinion, all items that are in the form of liquids, gases and fine powder (like sugar, salt), etc should be measured in liters, since they occupy the whole space in a can, tin, bottle, etc. This way there will be uniformity. Only the other stuff like meat, vegetables should be measured in kg. Madan --- Louis JOURDAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 18:09 -0600 25/05/03, Carl Sorenson wrote: > >I have a question for those of you in metric > countries. How is water and > >natural gas measured and billed? Apparently in the > U.S. natural gas is > >measured in cubic feet. Water engineers talk in > gallons, but I think my > >home had a bill in cubic feet. > > > >Do other countries use liters or cubic meters? It > seems like liters would > >be overly precise for natural gas, but cubic meters > might not be precise > >enough. Perhaps it is just rounded to the nearest > 10 liters? > > > >Carl > > France: > > Electricity: kWh > > Gas: kWh > > Water: cubic meter > > Louis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
