Barrels, gallons, quarts, litres, kilolitres, cubic metres, bushels, etc. These are terms commonly used in the public domain.
This morning a farm policy report was released and it talked about billions of gallons of biofuels. Why not barrels or some other unit of volume? It's confusing! There are too many units of volume. It's now time to reduce the number of units used in the public domain. For the public's sake, let's help in understanding. Let's use litres (L) and kilolitres (kL) in the public domain and leave cubic metres in the science domain and forget the others. Now is the time to take a stand for liters and kiloliters (1000 L) and promote the use of them in the public domain. Use L and kL for fuels, river flow, lakes, oil, bushels of corn & wheat, etc. and many other materials. Let's get on with using the SI and the accepted liter. Then people can make reasonable comparisons among volumes rather than fiddle around with barrels, gallons, quarts, bushels and other units of volume. Regards, Stan Doore
