Think, for example, about trying to find out how much water is a long, oddly shaped lake – it would be impossible to measure each gallon of water separately or use a ruler to measure the shape of the lake.
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That's like a gas station saying fuel costs $0.00048 per eye dropper of gas even though your tank is measured in gallons.
Tank sizes are usually measured in gallons.
They are measured in gallons per hour.
The term is also a unit of volume measure, specifically 31 gallons of a fermented or distilled beverage, or 42 gallons of a petroleum product.
In the United States, crude oil is measured in barrels of 42 gallons each; the weight per barrel of API 30° light oil would be about 306 pounds.
For this reason, crude oil in the United States is measured in barrels, each barrel containing 42 gallons of oil.
The expansion has been driven largely by federal measures requiring that 36 billion gallons of biofuels a year be mixed into the nation's gasoline supply by 2022.
The Supreme Court held the exaction a valid privilege tax measured by the number of gallons sold; that it was not a tax upon instrumentalities of the federal government, and that the United States was not entitled to buy such gasoline without payment of the taxes charged dealers.
