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Your math is off by 50%.

A gallon is 3.785 litres, and the euro is roughly $1.05.

So 2 euros per litre = one gallon costs $8.



*US liquid gallon

A US liquid gallon is defined as 3.785411784 liters, the US dry gallon is 4.40488377086 liters, while the imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters. And that's just the currently used definitions...

If I ask Google for "1 gallon in liters", it assumes Imperial gallons which would account for a good chunk of the error.


To be fair, even google gets this wrong sometimes - "1 gallon in gallons" = 1.2:

https://www.google.com/search?q=1+gallon+in+gallons


This seems to be localised, for me it highlights 3,78 litres


Thank you for the correction. I should have done my math a bit better. I do appreciate this community for calling out incorrect data. One of the very few communities left that call errors out in a thought out way.


For reference gas in the USA costs between $5.60 (mostly in California) and $3.60 per gallon. (According to GasBuddy.com)


It’s above $6/gallon here in the bar area even for the cheapest gas so the prices are not that different.


This is partly because California law requires special gas that not all refineries produce.




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