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On Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:33:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-03-03, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:12:27 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> When Canada went metric they blew gas mileage completely out of the
>>> water by turning the equation upside-down, changing from miles per
>>> gallon to litres per 100 km.  You can't just apply a simple conversion
>>> factor.
>>
>> I got adept at translating 100 kph road signs into mph
> 
> Me too.  Being a computer nerd working in hexadecimal all the time
> helped - I just read the numbers off my old miles-per-hour speedometer
> as if they were hex.
> 
>>                                                        but I gave up
>> completely on cents per liter of gas including the exchange rate. With
>> Imperial gallons I figured I was getting a bargain; with liters I
>> figured I was getting screwed.
>

I don't remember the exchange rate in the '90s but $100 US would get me a 
wad of colorful Canadian bills and a looney or two. I just looked up the 
exchange rate and it's even worse now. 

It wasn't as bad as when the peso was in the sewer. I bought a lemonade 
from a street vendor and gave him a US dollar. I held out my hand and he 
started filling it with coins, looking at me to see if I was satisfied. I 
got quite a collection that was probably worth 13 cents. 
> That got a bit more complicated.  3.8 liters to the U.S. gallon, OK, but
> the exchange rate muddied the waters.