On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:58:10 +0000, ColonelTupperware
> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:24:27 -0500, Bret Chase >
>employed a troop of monkeys to hit keyboards to produce:
>
>>>:|
>>>:|No idea of the introduction to the US though.
>>>:|Why would you want a diesel in the US?
>>>:|Doesn't gasoline cost less than the stuff you call beer? ;-)
>>
>>gas is waaaaaaaaay cheaper than beer.... a gal (128 Oz) of gas here
>>(Maine, USA) is currently $1.60US... a 12 (144 Oz) pack of cheap
>>domestic beer is about $7.99. diesel has been cheaper than gas for
>>the last couple of years... it's price has remained rock solid while
>>gas prices do the yo-yo.
>>
>Sheesh
>Around my neck of the woods, draught beer (real ale not chemicalager)
>is typically around £2 a pint and Petrol and Diesel is about 80p /
>litre or about 45p a pint. That's about a quarter of the price of
>beer.
>There are more expensive beers of course, but somewhere near £2 will
>get you a pint of session bitter in most places.
>
>I cant work out your quantities in ounces because you use different
>ounces and gallons to us. How much is your ordinary bar draft beer a
>US gallon?

It's a tolerable approximation to treat a US fluid ounce as being the
same as a UK one. The big difference is that there's 16 fl. oz. in a
US pint, and 20 in a proper one.

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