• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    I suspect most people wouldn’t really know how big a gallon is either. They care about how much they pay per gallon, and they just don’t know that their electricity bill tells them how much they pay per kWh.

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Americans often buy milk by the gallon and have various 1-5 gallon gas cans for common gas powered equipment (lawn mower, leaf blower, generator). I beleive a gallon is tangible here. I’m sure ~4 liters is tangible for metric countries although they often use l/100 miles so they just need to know 1 liter, which I assume many drinks are sold as such