To: B Knotts
In U.S. units, this is 41.88 mpg for the BMW and 40.05 mpg for the Prius. Huh? The units in the story are mpg. What did I miss?
To: Fundamentally Fair
They are using imperial gallons. An imperial gallon is about 1.2 U.S. gallons.
66 posted on
03/18/2008 9:00:48 AM PDT by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
To: Fundamentally Fair
Huh? The units in the story are mpg. What did I miss? Imperial gallons.
86 posted on
03/18/2008 10:38:14 AM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Fundamentally Fair
Imperial gallons are larger.
108 posted on
03/18/2008 8:59:32 PM PDT by
gogeo
(Democrats want to support the troops by accusing them of war crimes.)
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