I'm not american, i'm british, although I did live in the US for 12
years. I have been told that the US gallon is the old imperial wine
measure so you could accuse the british of selling short gallons and
the americans of perpetuating it.


Brian wrote:

"David Billington" wrote in message
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7.5 US gallons / cubic foot, 6.25 British imperial gallons / cubic foot.


historically speaking, why is that? The Brits invented the gallon, it
conveniently weighs 10 pounds if it's water, and you Americans go ahead and
change it. What's up with that? You probably just wanted to go around
getting lousy gas mileage, or was it that you wanted to be able to carry
less weight when Ma sent you to the well to get a few gallns of water?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Brian