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echo: barktopus
to: Robert Comer
from: Don Hills
date: 2006-05-01 23:19:46
subject: Re: Record fuel prices in the UK

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Robert Comer"
 wrote:
>You sure you aren't using bigger gallons than we do here?  None of the
>Audi's sold here even come close to that.  The A3 is supposed to get around
>32MPG highway and it's the smallest. (other than the TT, which doesn't
>mention the mileage, but I doubt it gets any better.)

British gallons are bigger than Texas. Gallons, that is. It therefore
follows that British ten gallon hats are bigger than Texan ten gallon hats,
which means that Britons have bigger heads than Texans.     QED.

But seriously, 1 Imperial gallon = 1.2 US gallons, give or take a thinbleful.

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