Tank Sizes, say they hold so much

[The-Wolf]

UK gallon is the imperial measure. Not sure why the US gallon is different. Try http/convert.french-property.co.uk/ for easy to use conversions.

The U.S gallon is the metric measurment. and from what i can gather they also measure dry goods in gallons as well.
1 U.S. "dry" gallon = 1.164 U.S. "wet" gallon or 0.969 Imperial gallon

Confused? I am!

 

[turbotiber]

The U.S gallon is the metric measurment. and from what i can gather they also measure dry goods in gallons as well.
1 U.S. "dry" gallon = 1.164 U.S. "wet" gallon or 0.969 Imperial gallon

Confused? I am!

Yikes! I don't understand why US has to use a totally different unit of measurement as everyone else. US, do you want to make our lives more complicated than it already is?

I am as mixed as you! Wouldn't it be great to have whole number ratios? But nooo, there's gotta be all this .28493 and 1.38482 stuff going on. *sigh* Oh well

 

[The-Wolf]

Most of the world now uses Litres, but it would seem that the U.K
do not want to adapt and continues to keep the old Imperial units to measure things in; after all its called imperial after the british empire that created it
The Americans wanted to be different from us brits by creating their own measurements and thus trying to swindle the british out of legitimate taxes (this was of course before the war of insurrection (american civil war to americans)) and now they will stick by it, no matter what.


This is just the way i see things and is in no-way a researched or backed up idea. Just an opinion.