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>> What *I* don't understand is those 1-litre petrol cans. I mean, how far
>> can you possibly drive with 1 L of fuel??
>
> My 5.7 litre V8 ute will do about 10k on a litre of fuel if I dont drive it
> like I stole it...
According to Wolfram Alpha, a "gallon", depending on which one you mean,
is somewhere between 3 L and 4 L. (I actually thought it was more like
25 L, but apparently not.)
My new car gets about 35 miles/gallon, which works out to about 9
miles/litre.
So I guess, hypothetically, you can drive 9 miles. (Obviously the real
distance will be shorter than that, because it takes fuel to start the
engine, and once the tank is nearly empty the engine stops working.)
9 miles is in fact about 14 Km.
I just wonder why they don't make 2 L or even 5 L petrol cans. I presume
it's to do with fire safety or something...
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