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Yeah, just bought a tanker of oil yesterday. The guy insisted on counting out the barrels, crazy. |
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I usually buy oil by the quart. |
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Our oil has been sold by the litre since the 1970s. |
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Well, a standard barrel of oil (42 US gallons) has about the same capacity as a normal bathtub, so why don't we just measure oil in bathfuls? (see links) |
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Surely the tabloid unit of volume is the Olympic-sized swimming pool. |
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...and a 42-gallon barrel of oil is 159 litres, whereas an Olympic-sized swimming pool is 2.5m litres, or 15,723 barrels of oil, costing $2.2m at today's price. |
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It seems to me that oil is measured using any appropriate measure you care to mention, resulting in numbers that suit the measurer/situation, simonj. |
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I propose that the base new unit of oil be
called "The Penguin". There would be 64
Penguins to one Polar Bear and 512 Bears
to one Blue Whale. |
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Bun to [xenzag], measure oil in damage to the ecosystem. |
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Why not use the man-hour equivalent? I've heard that 4 litres of petrol are equivalent to 23,000 man-hours of labour. |
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That certainly takes the sting out of $4/gallon, now doesn't it??? [+] |
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[Murdoch] when have you ever heard of oil being measured by anything but a barrel? Certainly all the financial markets refer to barrels, I would be curious to learn what other units are specifically used for oil. |
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Are you serious, simonj? Why does it have to be a measure specific to oil? |
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Barrels are used, because the end user is often bent over one. |
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[Ian]: The US. Here in the UK we pay about $10 a gallon, they complain about paying less than half what we do! |
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I'd aways thought the barrel was 55 gallons, but now I discover it's only 42. I suppose that's the answer to everything, isn't it? |
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