Expensive petroleum will make USA switch to liters

The Americans will summon quarts or some other unholy measurement.

This would literally work. If one station has $9.49 (/gal) on its sign and the station across the street is $3.79 (/L), there are absolutely enough dumb Americans who will line up for the more expensive gas with the lower number.

A&W nearly went bankrupt because Americans couldn't figure out that 1/3lb is more than 1/4lb. This is a good idea.

they'll just tape 1 in front of display

Naw, just post like 10.2... the exact pennies doesn't matter really. It would get printed on the receipt still, but doesn't need to be displayed everywhere.

Lol I can see the boomer tantrums now

Nah, we'll do it by a metric we're much more familiar with - 2 liters.

jesse, what the fuc are you talking about??

I thought about this too while I was filling up my tank yesterday, but I think they would just switch to quarts since that is just 1/4 of a gallon

More likely, the last cent digit will just drop because it isn't significant (rounding up of course, don't want to miss an opportunity to squeeze even more!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures

Is this gonna be like that time Americans didn't buy the 1/3lb burger from Burger King because they thought the 1/4lber from McDonald's was bigger. As an American myself, and a teacher for over a decade, people are legitimately retarded. I'm surprised shoes with laces is still the norm TBH.

Fuel efficiency is already reported using the American backwards notation: miles per gallon. Why not use the same silly method to screw people at the gas pump as well. Just go with barrels per cent, if you’re feeling extra diabolical.

Liters are communist.

We're switching to pints!

It's a hypocritical gambit that works both ways. Here in Canada we are 'metric' but in our grocery stores we label meat for sale 'by the pound' because it looks cheaper on the label.

Many US gas stations switched to liters for a while during the original "gas crisis" in the 70s. One crooked station near my house switched to liters without saying so - they simply covered or removed "gal" on the price signs, so they said like $0.85 with no units, so the price for a gallon was over $4. To further hide it, when customers asked to fill the tank the attendants only put in about a quarter tank, so the price would be realistic for a fillup measured in gallons. It pissed off one guy so much he stood in front of the place for about a month with a ginormous sign that said "BUYER BEWARE! REG OVER $4/GAL".

Liter is French, for give me some fucking gasoline before I break vous fucking lips.

This would be funny af

In the 70's when gas broke $1.00 per gallon and most pumps couldn't handle it, they just set the pumps to half the price and charged double that when you went in to pay. Pump would say $5 and you paid $10. That would be a lot harder today since rarely are people paying inside.

Actually, I am employed at the US standards office in Washington DC, AND this was indeed discussed! But we figured out (based on the last census results) that only few fellow citizens understand the concept of “liters” - in fact only scientists seem to be able to handle this unit, and they are being fired right, left and center (government strategy). I would still vote for Trump though, in an upcoming election.