[an amused spectator]

Thanks.

Wonder why I never read about the 55 gallon versus 42 gallon thingee in the Main Stream Media? (It's not like I did three weeks worth of research before I started casting blame in the gasoline price mess!)

It's not because they're trying to keep the electorate ignorant, is it? ;-)

These are numbers that should be rolling off the tongue of every eighth-grader...

[OKIEDOC]

No problem, it's a common mistake.

During college I used to gage tanks for a major oil company.

I would doubt that most teachers would know that oil comes in a 42 gallon barrel.

Yet these same teachers would say they do not want a nasty oil well in their neighborhood.