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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Remarkable how USian measurements always make people jump through some hoops. On my dashboard, I'd just see that the tank is missing about thirty liters of gas, so I'd get thirty liters. That was a car from the eighties, so we aren't talking any fancy electronics, either.

[–] CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes but the cashier wants us to tell her a monetary amount. It has nothing to do with USA using gallons instead of litres. It's a matter of multiplying money amount times unit of volume of desired fuel.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Hm, that's still an odd system, to me. Around here, the cash register does the multiplication, and I probably wouldn't be trusted to say the correct sum (nor would I want to). Never tried that, though — it might be possible to do it that way.