Once there will be no more digits to use for displaying price per gallon they will be forced to display price per liter as it still could fit
This would be funny af
Is this gonna be like that time Americans didn’t buy the 1/3lb burger from Burger King because they thought the 1/4lber from McDonald’s was bigger. As an American myself, and a teacher for over a decade, people are legitimately retarded. I’m surprised shoes with laces is still the norm TBH.
Pretty sure the 1/3lb burger fiasco was Whataburger, but yeah, a LOT of consumers are that dumb.
A&W actually.
Don’t get RivalArrival startered
Many US gas stations switched to liters for a while during the original “gas crisis” in the 70s. One crooked station near my house switched to liters without saying so - they simply covered or removed “gal” on the price signs, so they said like $0.85 with no units, so the price for a gallon was over $4. To further hide it, when customers asked to fill the tank the attendants only put in about a quarter tank, so the price would be realistic for a fillup measured in gallons. It pissed off one guy so much he stood in front of the place for about a month with a ginormous sign that said “BUYER BEWARE! REG OVER $4/GAL”.
I think a court would side with the drivers in a case about this.
I’m not really sure that ruling will stay nowadays
Love him
God bless America.
AmericanLiters.
Aka Gallons… 😂
I want a liter of cola with my burger, and hold the spit.
The death throes of an empire. Dangerous thing, that.
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I think the whole planet is already on a subscription plan.
Subscription planet, as it were.
It’s way too much to be subscribed to society though. Should just stop paying my taxes and become a pirate 😞
Liters are communist.
We’re switching to pints!
I could actually see quarts happening
Pieces of eight.
A King’s measure!
Damn French communists! Wait, what??
Lol I can see the boomer tantrums now
I thought about this too while I was filling up my tank yesterday, but I think they would just switch to quarts since that is just 1/4 of a gallon
That’s right. Europe uses liters because that’s their biggest liquid measurement. Ours is gallons, so we’ll just split that by 4. You think MAGAs are going to go along with switching to a foreign commie system for our beautiful American gas?
Let me introduce you to quettalitre, 10^30 litre. a.k.a. cubic gigametre
We tried the metric thing in the 1970s - people hated it. Some things stuck like alcohol measurement in ml. Most didn’t .
I was in Middle School/ High School at that time, and remember the attempted transition well. I even remember a science teacher telling us that THIS is going to be the way things are from now on, and we’d just better get used to it.
About 15 years later, I was using a standard American slide rule, and remembered that, and thought “Guess not, Poindexter.”
Anyone who thought changing the measurement system wasn’t going to be met with resistance was delusional. People hate change. Sometimes, change is better. As someone who went through it in Canada, there was a lot of disgruntlement from the previous generation, but the rest of us just moved on (mostly), and being able to just use decimals everywhere instead of base 2 fractions here, decimals there, multiples of 12 over there was absolutely refreshing. Now my kids barely even use imperial and just shake their heads when the oldsters talk about it.
And I’d still rather measure people’s weight in pounds than in stone like a monster.
That’s a really great perspective I never had. I only see it as a kid growing up in the 70s usa. But you folks got through it and we didn’t. That’s telling on our stubbornness at the very least. Btw I never had more trouble with alcohol than the time I visited … asked for a pint. Do you mean a Mickey? Chuckles.
I can switch between metric and imperial with ease. Like many Canadians, I still do oven temperatures in F, height in feet and inches, and body weight in pounds. But I have a number of coworkers who use metric only, mostly immigrants and young people, and I will tailor my units for the people I’m talking to.
Pints.
More likely, the last cent digit will just drop because it isn’t significant (rounding up of course, don’t want to miss an opportunity to squeeze even more!).
In the 70’s when gas broke $1.00 per gallon and most pumps couldn’t handle it, they just set the pumps to half the price and charged double that when you went in to pay. Pump would say $5 and you paid $10. That would be a lot harder today since rarely are people paying inside.
They will change the advertised price to quarts, it’s much easier for the and it will mess with people because prices will look 4 times lower but it is 4 times less liquid.
You guys don’t even know how devaluation works.
I’ve lived thru 2 on other lands.
It goes like this : wow! The government is doing great! I can fill up my car with just $4decidllars…
wow! The government is doing great! I can fill up my car with just $4newdollars…
wow! The government is doing great! Ever since they defaulted the currency by 10, I can fill up my car with just $4…
they need to make a “exchange your blood plasma for the same amount of gasoline” station at every gas stand.
