Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

[milestogo]

SATIRE, I think.

https://theonion.com/gas-station-price-sign-using-scientific-notation/

[Permanut]

1. Getting ready for continued inflation.

[dickthegrouch]

2. The reason the UK went to litres for liquid measure

Was "petrol" (gasoline) prices went too high for the pumps to accommodate the price.
One litre is roughly 1/5th of an imperial gallon, so overnight the apparent price dropped from 1.00 to 0.20. Of course you were now pumping ~5 times the number of litres as you had been gallons, but some people were fooled.
Maybe the US will be dragged kicking and screaming into metric units for the same reason.

[Norrrm]

3. Back around the sixties, the government and industry wanted to go metric

Back around the sixties, the government and industry wanted to go metric. It failed.
It was heathen, communist, evil.
Why should we use foreign numbers?

Even though metric makes more sense.

[Disaffected]

6. Heh, I still remember the screaming headlines

from a local rural news rag - To Heck With Hectares and Prairies Aflame With Indignation.

[Disaffected]

5. Err, no, the reason the UK went to liters

was for metrification.

[hlthe2b]

4. The Onion... At first it had me checking my math in my head... LOL

[milestogo]

7. It could be that some gas station owner has a sense of humor

and put it up that way.