…translated into the equivalent of dollars per gallon?
Why, do you know something we don’t know and should know Dale?
How much ya willin’ to pay?
MarkB
Of course.
Nah, seriously. I was just having a chat with Norman Dannatt and he told me the price is over a pound sterling for a litre. And, I’m like, speak English, Norman!
Ireland today(dublin).
Saw prices differing from (diesel 1.30 USD/LITRE to 1.40 USD/LITRE).
…(petrol 1.40 USD/LITRE to 1.50 USD/LITRE).
thats if my euro to dollar calc is right.
If one litre = 0.2641728 US gallons, and you use a currency calculator like this one: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
to get 1.00 GBP = 1.80960 USD
then
figure out some algebraic thingy to find out the difference to make litres into gallons and multiply that by the value of the pound into US ounces and … man, I suck at math. 
djm
I know this has probably been discussed before, but why dont yanks use Metric system in a lot of things yet?
1/0.3641728 * 1.80960 * pounds per litre
or about 6.85 * pounds per litre
or what djm said…man
left out the decimal 'tween the 0 and the 3…
This is the formula I’ve been using, you just pop in the current UK price and exchange rate:
(.959*1.81)/.26 = equiv dollars per gallon (in this instance, $6.68)
The 1.81 is the dollars per pound today and the .959 the petrol price per liter, in pounds. I saw this price today near Camden but last week the paper said it was ranging from 90p to £1.29 across the country.
Last time I filled my tank, which was at the end of last week, I paid £1.03/litre for diesel.
you can’t compare the cost of driving just by the price of petrol, you’ll have to compare taxes aswell then, that’s just about half the difference, there’s alot more to compare.
btw, how much is a pint of guinness in America these days 
I thought we couldn’t get the real Guinness over here…
As far as I can tell, you don’t get any real beer at all.
In Canada, it works out to roughly $3.38 US for one of your 3.785L gallons.
Jef
Yikes, I got the math wrong, so here’s the real numbers! Sign #367 that it’s been a long day.
That’s 'cause we keep the stuff from the micro-breweries to ourselves, and only advertise the crap like Bud and Coors. 
I’d like to know this myself. I have heard that it was tried in the 70’s but
largely abandoned for some reason. I also understand that folks had a hard
time figuring out what they were paying for gas (petrol), and rumors flew
that gas stations were taking advantage of the confusion and overcharging
for a liter of gas.
Because it’s like, umm, a free country . . . yeah . . . that’s why . . . <ahem!>
They tried to foist it upon us, but we resisted. Nothing “organized,” you understand . . . just more like everyone ignored it. Pointedly ignored it.
There were efforts made to lure us over, but it all kind of fizzled out.
Most of it happened during the sprouts-and-sun-tea “ecological intellectual” phase, so I think “metric” kind of got wrapped up in that. It came across as being very high-brow and Public Broadcasting System (our cultural TV and radio). Vegetarian and macrobiotic. Montessori. Luuuuv beads. That or something belonging in science class.
Just my take on the situation, you understand. Could have been a more sinister plot, but I think mostly nobody could figger it out.
Uh oh, that reminds me . . . need to go fill the tank before Rita-mania hits and the prices go up yet again . . .
maybe we just like fractions?
Lambchop has pretty much nailed it from a plebian point of view, but the clincher was when American industry and retailers screamed about the cost of relabelling and repackaging everyhting. The joke of that is that they had no problems adding the metric equivalent to all products they sell to Canada.
djm