return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 24 days agoSome gas stations "out of diesel" as prices surgewww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1360
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minus-squareMonument@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 days agoIt’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!) But… yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.
minus-squareCodandChips @lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-223 days ago It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)> Dollars and cents!
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoIt’s also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959. International Yard and Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)
But… yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.
It’s also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959.
International Yard and Pound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound