On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:19:17 AM UTC-4, harry wrote:
9mpg???!!
Get a properly designed truck instead of American ****,
Or even a diesel engined one.
That's the sort of mileage you get from a truck that carries 16 tons
in Europe.

Yeah, but a gallon is also ~20% larger in the UK.

9MPG in London is 7.5MPG in New York.

This is all because some toolbag way back when bought 40 gallon wine casks instead of 50 gallon water barrels for the trip across the ocean to the new world. They forgot that they were wine casks, and divided by 50 when figuring out how big a gallon was.