Dear Pat, then there is no technical obstacle to metrication of fuel pumps in the US. with careful planning, i think that the costs of metrication need not be more than normal business costs.
the liter would also be a better way to measure and to understand volumes of liquid fuel. i don't think the decimal gallon is as relevant to the transportation or to the technologies. cheers, Ron On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Pat Naughtin < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2010/12/01, at 10:20 , Ron Stone wrote: > > it would also help if the fuel pumps in the US displayed liters rather than > the pre-metric gallon. > > there are probably a number of ways that consumers could be better informed > about their vehicles and their fuel economy if fuel pumps simply displayed > liters and price per liter. > > Ron > > > Dear Ron, > > To be facetious -- aren't all fuel pumps in the USA already calibrated in > litres -- expressed in lots of 3.785 412 E-03 litres at a time? The oil > companies just forgot to write on the pumps something like: "As required by > national standards in the USA, we use metric gallons" > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin > Author of the ebook, *Metrication Leaders Guide,* see > http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html > Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY > PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, > Geelong, Australia > Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 > > Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped > thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric > system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands > each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat > provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and > professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in > Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian > Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the > UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com > <http://www.metricationmatters.com/>for > more metrication information, contact Pat at > [email protected] or to get the free '*Metrication > matters*' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to > subscribe. > > -- -------------------- Ron Stone ------------------------- disclaimers or other restrictions may apply to this message. ------------------------------------
