Best laugh that I've had in a long time, Ian. Did you have to transport your old tank to the States to sell it to someone who would want non-metric measure?

Actually, I have been using metric for so long that I now make mistakes when using feet and inches. I sometimes forget to multiply feet by 12 instead of 10 when switching to inches, and find doing calculations of say finding 1/4 of 3' 7" 3/8" a pain. With metric it is just one division, not 3, and there are no fractions to have to change denominators.

> Two things that bothered me when Canada switched to the metric system
> were;

> The fact that the car I owned at the time had a gas tank that held 11
> gallons. It cost me almost $200.00 to have a new gas tank put in that
> would accept the new metric litre.

> The other thing was that the litre was smaller so my car went a shorter
> distance on the same amount of fuel. However, this problem was alleviated
> when the government lowered the speed limit to 90 K/H.

> Ian