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Started by Rich A. Hammond
Fri, 07 Aug 1987 10:58
Re: metric system
Author: Rich A. Hammond
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1987 10:58
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1987 10:58
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In article <2560002@hpclrk.HP.COM> rajiv@hpclrk.HP.COM writes: ... >not know how much a liter is but it is ok because there is not *one* place >on the whole USA which will sell them gas by liters only. So everybody is NOT TRUE - Here on the East Coast (Philadelphia and New Jersey, at least) Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) switched to liters when the gas prices zoomed up. All the other companies put in new pumps with F5.1 format (3digits.1digit) for cents per gallon. ARCO simply changed to cents per liter, and changed the gears inside the pump. This allows up to 99.9 cents/liter or roughly $3.78 a gallon while still using the old F4.1 format. HOWEVER, they continued to advertise their price in $/gallon. I checked once when I bought gas, their conversion was off (in their favor) by a couple cents a gallon, so that although they appeared to be less expensive than the other stations, they cost the same. It's a pity that the other oil companies didn't make the same switch. Rich Hammond hammond@bellcore.com or ...!bellcore!hammond
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