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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
For easy math, let's say prices would go up ten cents per gallon back in the day.
Now they commonly go up 10-cents per litre (there are 3.79 litres to an imperial gallon).
Do the math - that's a 37.9 cent increase per gallon.
People don't stop to comprehend that a 10-cent increase (per litre) is a far greater increase per gallon than prior to the metric conversion in 1981.
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Petrol prices are not influenced by gallons or litres
Universal price is per barrel and that filters down to the petrol stations.....