metric tools - not so dumb question?

[Richard Tanimura]

Huw writes -----

The miles are the same length, but the Imperial gallon (shouldn't that
be the name of the US gallon now??) is larger than the, what, SAE?
gallon.  The British, as a result, get more beer in their pints than
Americans do...

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They need the extra beer to drown their sorrows over their exhorbitant gas
prices .-)
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