Exactly! I believe they sell gas by the liter in Europe.
That way you can raise the price and it still seems low.
$1.50 per liter sounds cheap. Then you realize that’s about $6.00 per gallon.
A better way to sell natural gas would be by the energy content, so much per kilocalorie (a term directly translatable to BTU’s, which nobody understands either). Compressed natural gas does not come in “gallons” or “liters” but for a given quantity of fuel by weight, contains a given number of BTU’s or kilocalories.
And this is what provides the total energy needed to propel a vehicle down the road.
”Exactly! I believe they sell gas by the liter in Europe.
That way you can raise the price and it still seems low.
$1.50 per liter sounds cheap. Then you realize that’s about $6.00 per gallon.”
You mean that is enough to fool you? I can tell you that whatever system you use, most people can tell when the price goes up. It takes about a day to get use to fuel prices in liters, even if they are in Euros.
Transportation fuels (Gasoline and Diesel) are measured in gallons. What is the motivation for measuring natgas in units other than gallon equivalents?
Fifteen states already indicated their support for natural gas gallon equivalents:
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Massachusetts
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Tennessee
Virginia
The rest of the the states have NOT indicated support for natural gas gallon equivalents. If you oppose regulators forcing the metric system on natural gas motor fuel equivalents, click on your state for a sample letter to your governor requesting his/her support.
In Thailand, too. When I was stationed there, one day one of my tasks was to measure the fuel consumption of a stationary gasoline engine. I asked my Thai assistant to go buy a gallon can, intending to see how long the engine would take to use it up. He returned with a one-liter can, saying it was illegal to sell gallon cans. Of course, that served just as well, and took me less time to make the measurement.