Diesel prices in your area?

[OldMcDonald]

JGL, Thanks. I thought you might have been on Imperial measures. Britain changed for the same reasons, particularly since the voters decided to join the European Union as it is now called.

 

[jix]

Canada had always used Imperial measure before we changed to Metric system. One Imperial gallon equals 160 fluid ozs . but an imperial quart is . (5 x 8 oz (US) cups) (and 5 cups US =1 Imperial gallon) wheras a US gallon has 4X 32oz= 128 oz (us)= 4 us quarts but an imperial quart has 40 ozs. Now we use only metric measure where there is no direct equivalent to a US gallon, but it is equivalent to 32/40X 160 = 128 fluid ozs (US) A US gallon is 0.8 Imperial gallons..or about 4.625 litres. It gets worse when you try to convert US miles per gallon to metric equivalent (kilometers per litre).

Glad you asked? But Wait! In Canada 30 mpg (US) is approximately equal to 100 km per 6.75 litres of fuel. (Makes my head spin, but I routinely mentally convert my gas mileage from metric to Imperial when I fill up at the pump.. which is just a way to forestall alzheimers.. ha ha):mur:
jix (PS: ONE LITRE OF Pure WATER at STP wieghs exactly one Kilogram (2.2 lbs) 3 litres of Canadian beer will cross your eyes @6.7% alcohol)---:drink:

 

[rd_macgregor]

The auto makers used this Imperial gallon anomaly to imply outrageously high fuel efficiency ratings here in Canada. I was amazed to see RAM trucks claiming over 40 mpg...until I clued in to them using the (old) Canadian measure. The Metric system is a lot more reliable, since it doesn't come with several different values in different places having the same name.
Bob

 

[rd_macgregor]

The auto makers used this Imperial gallon anomaly to imply outrageously high fuel efficiency ratings here in Canada. I was amazed to see RAM trucks claiming over 40 mpg...until I clued in to them using the (old) Canadian measure. The Metric system is a lot more reliable, since it doesn't come with several different values in different places having the same name.
Bob

 

[OldMcDonald]

Thanks to you too Jix. I am familiar with Imperial and Metric measurements. I was born in UK in 1944 so was brought up and had my early adult life with Imperial. As a farmer who uses sprays and fertilisers I have had to contend with converting "Units" of fertiliser/acre to kgs/ha and ounces (dry and fluid)/acre to g or ml/ha. It becomes easy after a few years.

A slight problem with your gallons/litres conversion though. 1 US gallon = 3.785 litres. 1Imperial gallon = 4.546 - both rounded to 3 decimal places. I too still convert litres/km to mpg. Except for my tractor where I want to know litres/hour. I do a rare bit of contracting.

So far as I know, only the US deviated from Imperial measurements to their own pints and gallons. Other places either stuck with Imperial proper or never used it. The US also used a shorter weight measure for hundredweights and tons I think - 100lbs to a hundredweight instead of 112 and 2000 lbs to the ton instead of 2240. I note many figures in the agricultural US reports talking about millions of pounds so maybe the US ton was never really used much? A metric tonne (1000kgs) is 2205 pounds. Oh, and a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter - except in the US where it is claimed "A pint is a pound the world around".

I also learned about bushels, pecks, quarters, chains, furlongs, rods, roods, poles and perches when I was at school. Forgotten a lot of it now, except that I used to have a chain measure (100links in a chain) and a cricket pitch is a chain long. Ten chains in a furlong, 8 furlongs in a mile. I am beginning to remember a few more now too. Hope you are right about it keeping away Alzheimers.

Edit: There apears to be a slight problem with duplicate postings recently. It happened with this one too. I definitely only clicked once as I am sure others have done too.

 

[oldpilgrim]

finally it dropped a couple cents

g: 1.97
d: 2.35

.....

 

[Ford850]

g: 1.71
d: 2.25

It's nice that it's dropping, but it seems to stay at least $0.50 higher than gas all the time.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Diesel dropped $0.04 where I buy most of the time. I paid $2.119 today.

 

[WM75Guy]

Diesel still $2.14, unleaded at $1.82.

The Boomer 8N is a great tractor. Hard to believe it is almost 5 years old.

 

[DT86]

Off-road #2 delivered- $1.69

Regular unleaded- $1.79