Where did you get the idea that an inch in the U.S. is smaller than one in Canada?

Simply not true.

Quite. It's litres that vary in size by country. They're smaller, meaning more to the gallon, in America.

Yep a brain fart sorry.

Pints Db, its pints. Both UK and US have 8 pints in a gallon but the UK pint is 20 fluid oz whereas US is 16 fluid ozs. Also US fluid oz = 1.041 UK fluid oz ..... weird

Just to add for those that are living in or visiting BC there is a new law coming in February that means we will all have to pre pay for fuel at the pumps. There will apparently be no exceptions so you either pay at the pump with a card or you have to give the attendant cash before he/she will start the pump.
Going to make things difficult for those who also purchase other stuff when paying by card and the woman in the Esso station told me this morning people will have to pay separately.

I hate that, I never know how much to pay. How are you meant to know how much it will cost to fill up? You can guess a rough amount but not the exact amount.

If you go over/under do you then have to go back and pay the difference/get a refund?

What on earth is that coming in for?

I experienced it in US and it was a pain. I am sure the filling stations will not want it when their sales of other goods drop significantly.

I like US petrol stations better than Canadian ones. Firstly, there are rarely attendants to grunt at you, it's nearly all self-serve, secondly almost all stations there have trigger locks to hold the pump open until the tank is full. Relatively few stations here have that so I often have to jam the trigger with my wallet, it works ok but it makes the wallet smell.

The woman in the gas station told me it was because of a case 3 years ago when a young attendant was killed as he was dragged up the road by the car driving off without paying, he had tried to stop them, all for 20 bucks!!!!!!!

There is also a change to the way these and other places are staffed at night, something to do with not being allowed on your own unless the doors are locked and there is a small hatch or something much like the late night gas stations in the UK then.

Canadians don't know how much YOU weigh???

I have to ask height and weight very often in my job .... they tend to say feet and inches, then their weight in pounds. Only the relatively young (we don't get very many young people having joint replacements, but we do get some) might use metric measures for height and weight, but we do need metric to work out BMI's!

OMG I can't keep up!

BTW...self serve is not permitted in Oregon or New Jersey...it is a state law there.

How strange. Some states also have weird laws about telephones in petrol stations, though I can't keep track of which ones want you not to phone while pumping and which ones want you not to while driving.

I know that New York state is a no go place for talking while in motion and Quebec is going to implement it very soon.

It's around Washington that you can't use the phone in a gas station, Virginia or Maryland, it makes me chuckle when my associate there says "getting gas, call you back when I'm moving again".

Different sort of motion