Jesse Spector @jessespector:
Guess it makes sense that Canadian car ads give gas consumption in liters per 100 kilometers, but it’s still weird to American eyes.

@jessespector That’s the European standard as well. There’s a constant to do the conversion, which I can’t remember.

Jesse Spector @jessespector:
@jeffporten I’ve read proposals that we go to the same system. Don’t remember why.

@jessespector Switching to metric entirely would save US $billions a year. Been true since 1970s, when it failed utterly.

Jesse Spector @jessespector:
@jeffporten I meant on the gas mileage, specifically.

@jessespector Can’t think why that’d matter. Americans think “bigger numbers better”, not smaller.