And who claimed there was some poetic validity, some important American literary tradition based on guzzling gallon after gallon of unleaded petroleum with no care in the world for the environment?
The British model gets nearly 72 miles to the American gallon — not "nearly 86 miles," which is a figure based on imperial gallons.
Before introduction of the Imperial Units in the UK, all apothecaries' measures were based on the wine gallon, which survived in the US under the name liquid gallon or wet gallon.
The wine gallon was abolished in Britain in 1824, and this system was replaced by a new one based on the newly introduced Imperial gallon.
That works out to $36.40 a tank compared with $29.12, based on $1.82 a gallon, the average price for unleaded regular early this month.
I was astounded when presented with a bill based on $1.80 per gallon because I had pulled up to an attendant-served pump, an absurd surcharge for having an attendant put gas in one's automobile, and particularly onerous on senior citizens and other drivers who may have no choice due to physical limitations.
The E.P.A.'s official rating of range is 73 miles, with a fuel economy equivalent of 106 m.p.g. in town and 92 on the highway (based on a conversion of one gallon of gasoline being equal to 33.7 kilowatt hours).
The standard U.S. gallon is based on the Queen Anne wine gallon of 231 cubic inches and is about 17 percent smaller than the British imperial gallon.
In February 2012, SkyTruth estimated the cumulative amount of crude oil leaked by Taylor Energy from Sept. 17, 2004 to the end of 2011 as somewhere between 251,677 and 1.174 million gallons, based on differing scenarios for the slick's thickness.
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