In article , Dennis Lee
Bieber  writes:

>  And miles per gallon makes a more meaningful measure to me than liters
> per km. {I have half a tank [10 gallons]: how far will that get me? Lot
> easier to do 10 * MPG than to work out an inverse [approximating 4l per
> gal] 40/l/km}

But if you want to know how much petrol it will take to do the x mile
trip you're just about to do, the calculation is a simple one. You
just have to remember that a mile is about 1.6km.

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Mike Fleming

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