When one talks about fuel economy (in Imp) it's written as mpg.  When one 
talks about fuel consumption, the inverse of economy, it's usually in SI 
units and written as L/100 km.  When you SAY "miles per gallon" versus 
"liters per hundred kilometers", I like the Imp. way better because it's just 
easier to say.
So I was thinking, why not multiply the SI fraction by 10 : instead of 4.9 L / 
100 km, make it 49 L / 1000 km, also written as 49 LpM (49 Liters per 
Megameter)?  Technically it should be LpMm, but just for simplicity I removed 
the small m.  Now we have something that's a whole number and is just as easy 
to say as 49 mpg.

I'm new to this mailing list so if this has already been brought up, please 
forgive me.

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