Do you ever calculate your fuel usage in miles per litre, probably not? I think that we fool ourselves by calculating our usage in MPG yet always quoting the price at the pumps in cost per litre. Perhaps this is why increases affect our friends across the channel more so than us. They don’t know what a gallon is.
It didn’t take the oil companies long to remove every detail of cost per gallon from the forecourts, could you imagine the outcry if fuel was broadcast to be going up by £1 per gal overnight.
I still hold on to this MPG theory yet very rarely think of cost per gallon or the real cost in MPL. Do a few calculations yourself.
40 MPG = 8.8 miles to each litre
30 MPG = 6.6 miles to each litre
25 MPG = 5.5 miles to each litre
20 MPG = 4.4 miles to each litre
15 MPG = 3.2 miles to each litre @ £1.20 per litre that’s approx 40p for each mile. Ouch!!:Mad:
Little wonder the French are up in arms.
It didn’t take the oil companies long to remove every detail of cost per gallon from the forecourts, could you imagine the outcry if fuel was broadcast to be going up by £1 per gal overnight.
I still hold on to this MPG theory yet very rarely think of cost per gallon or the real cost in MPL. Do a few calculations yourself.
40 MPG = 8.8 miles to each litre
30 MPG = 6.6 miles to each litre
25 MPG = 5.5 miles to each litre
20 MPG = 4.4 miles to each litre
15 MPG = 3.2 miles to each litre @ £1.20 per litre that’s approx 40p for each mile. Ouch!!:Mad:
Little wonder the French are up in arms.