...especially liters of gasoline!
It would be soothing to see "0.86" instead of "3.24" for a posted
gasoline price, wouldn't it? Right now, in my home town, unleaded
regular is about 86 cents per liter.Thanks to the soft drink industry,
A liter is now a metric unit of volume that most Americans understand
very well. But, would they understand it in bulk? Would they appreciate
filling their gas tank with 40 to 60 L?
The other question is whether or not the public cares about making the
easy comparisons we suggest. But, yes, the liter, like SI, applies to
"all people in all times."
Yet, gee, I think "billions of liters" or "billions of kiloliters"
would be as understandable as "billions of barrels."
Incidentally, we are catching up to Australian gasoline (petrol) prices.
The going price in Sydney is currently about AUD 1.31/L. In the U.S., it
is now the equivalent of about AUD 1.03/L.
STANLEY DOORE wrote:
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
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U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
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