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I don't think there's anything negative about folks' confusion about the mileage figures....are we sure that WNY Pat's post below is wrong?
wny_pat wrote:
An Imperial gallon is 1.2 U.S. gallons, or a U.S. gallon is 0.83 Imperial gallons. Roughly speaking, discount the Times numbers by one-fifth: a 50 mpg vehicle to them is a 40 mpg vehicle to us Yanks. Another reason we should all go metric.
I ask because that language about difference in volume appears in many other places related to fuel economy including
this one