# How soon will it be before they "down-size" a Gallon of Gasoline? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869 "2022-06-26T01:57:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/248 "2025-11-18T22:28:20Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > I tell everyone in sight, in both the cookware and body care sections of stores: You really know how to be annoying. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/249 "2025-11-18T22:31:33Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > The aluminum-free underarm roll-on deodorant . . . the one that’s supposedly for sensitive skin . . . gives me a severe and painful rash Try it in the stick variety. I’m allergic to everything, even air itself! And Aluminum-free deodorant never affected me. > [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > You really know how to be annoying. Being right can sometimes be annoying, to some folks. Take it or leave it! ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/250 "2025-11-18T23:12:43Z")
I’m going to be VERY blunt . . . You constantly talk as if you know best, as if your way is the right way and everyone else is wrong It’s NOT a good way to be As @VOLVO-V70 said . . . You sure know how to annoy people I truly believe you are not even TRYING to improve ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/251 "2025-11-18T23:52:43Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > Engines, transmissions, suspension and steering components are aluminum > > You want to go back to cast iron and steel? The aluminum in those components doesn’t get rubbed into the skin, or poured into waterways. Most of it gets recycled nowadays. Common sense. > [@db4690](#): > > You constantly talk as if you know best, as if your way is the right way and everyone else is wrong I just pass along the best information I find, as well as anecdotal(my own) if I find doing something a certain way works. “Everyone else” is not always wrong. But they sure are allergic to knowledge! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/252 "2025-11-19T00:50:54Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > I don’t need to. > > Common sense. I will take the results of multiple carefully-executed scientific studies over your ‘common sense’ every day of the week. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/253 "2025-11-19T02:36:14Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > I wasn’t aware of copper toxicity. Copper is both a necessary nutrient (about 1 mg/day) and toxic in excess. The EPA rule is the Lead and Copper rule. I read an article about a difficult-to-diagnose case of anemia that turned out to be a copper deficiency with similar symptoms. > [@VDCdriver](#): > > “RT”, perhaps? Not I! ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/254 "2025-11-19T02:36:36Z")
> [@Old-Days-Rick](#): > > The self adjusters work just fine. I like putting an extra click or two on them This is a bit contradictory…. If they work.just fine you should not have ro adjust them. But they don’t work well at all and the brake engineers who designed the brakes in your Chevy admitted that to me. Delco Moraine used to do all the GM brakes except Corvette and my division merged in the 90s Because of those poor adjustors, I did the same. Everytime the wheels.came off my Suburbans, I snugged the shoes up a couple clicks. It made the brake pedal feel less bad. Not good, but less bad. ---
**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/255 "2025-11-19T10:59:23Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > “Everyone else” is not always wrong. But they sure are allergic to knowledge! 😃 I know we are headed for 300! Doing my part! ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/256 "2025-11-19T14:18:08Z")
No Tylenol chart? ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/257 "2025-11-19T14:46:36Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > Copper is both a necessary nutrient (about 1 mg/day) and toxic in excess That’s true of almost everything. You can die from drinking too much water. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth’s crust and 12th most abundant in the universe. We all have aluminum in our systems at all times. Absorption through the skin is the lowest pathway. The link to dementia was found in dialysis patients where the aluminum salts were used to bind phosphate in the administered intravenous fluids. Conversely, aluminum weldors had huge loads of aluminum in their systems but no correlation to dementia was found in them. The old saying, correlation does not necessarily equal causation needs to be considered when looking at any data. That being said, the first rule is that exposure to foreign substances should always be minimized as much as possible to lower any potential risks. Copper is used in anti-fouling paint on the bottom of marine boats. It constantly leeches into the surrounding water as a means to prevent algae or barnacle growth. Its purpose in that application is to create a poisonous atmosphere around the hull and of course, the copper ions are gradually dispersed into the surrounding water… ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/258 "2025-11-19T14:56:50Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > Copper is both a necessary nutrient (about 1 mg/day) and toxic in excess. And, it is essential to balance copper intake with zinc intake. If someone is taking a zinc supplement (for… supposedly… fighting a cold), they may wind-up seriously depleting the copper levels in their body. I have to take the AREDS-2 vitamin/mineral supplement for an ocular condition, and it contains both zinc and copper–in the proper proportions to balance each other. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/259 "2025-11-19T16:08:54Z")
> [@TwinTurbo](#): > > The old saying, correlation does not necessarily equal causation needs to be considered when looking at any data. Correlation just tells you it may need further study. Correlation between 2 completely different things is found all the time. And many times, it means NOTHING. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/260 "2025-11-22T03:28:49Z")
> [@TwinTurbo](#): > > You can die from drinking too much water. Usually hyponatremia, seen in long-distance runners who drink too much water but not enough salt. But we don’t have a rule limiting its presence in water. > [@TwinTurbo](#): > > Copper is used in anti-fouling paint on the bottom of marine boats. It’s used in reservoirs to suppress algae. A friend lived on a hill overlooking Silver Lake, a small reservoir in LA. We could see a guy in a rowboat throwing bright blue copper sulfate into the water. It was collected on flocculators on the way out - too expensive to waste. He reminded me of the Ti-de-bol guy. ---
**Author:** ![TheWonderful90s](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thewonderful90s/32/29584_2.png) [@TheWonderful90s](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheWonderful90s)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/261 "2025-11-30T03:20:40Z")
1/2" OSB 4 by 8’ sheets are now around .42 inches. USB flash drives are about 97% of the advertised capacity. 64GB is usually somewhere around 61.5GB and 62.5GB. I don’t want to hear anything you have to say about binary versus decimal. With gasoline, here is how it can happen. Someone will invent gasoline that provides more energy, so 15/16 of a gallon is equivalent to 1 gallon, and they’ll price it that way. People will get used to that. Then they’ll reduce this added performance until is is eventually equal to regular gasoline, but it’ll still be 15/16 of a gallon that is advertised as one gallon. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/262 "2025-11-30T12:42:05Z")
> [@TheWonderful90s](#): > > but it’ll still be 15/16 of a gallon that is advertised as one gallon. It’ll be like potato chips with a disclaimer- this product is sold by equivalent power not volume. Some settling may have occurred during dispensing 😉 > [@TheWonderful90s](#): > > USB flash drives are about 97% of the advertised capacity. 64GB is usually somewhere around 61.5GB and 62.5GB I get what you are saying but this one is a little different than the others. There actually is 64GB of memory. In order to use it on a PC or equivalent OS, it needs to contain various formatting and sector mapping which takes up some space. So you are left with less than the total as usable space- in those situations. If you use it in your own developed system, the entire space can be available. Years and years ago now, I wrote some system code to use the extra sectors on removable storage media as a copy protection scheme. The usable media extends well beyond the space used by traditional OS and you can force the driver to recognize tracks/sectors beyond what the OS normally uses. No one else can see it unless you know how to do that… ---
**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/263 "2025-11-30T13:23:08Z")
> [@TheWonderful90s](#): > > 1/2" OSB 4 by 8’ sheets are now around .42 inches. Really?? That makes no sense at all. I hope you realize that if I go down to the lumber yard and measure even one 1/2” OSB at 48” long, your credibility is completely shot!! Not that it was good before. Also doing my part to get to 300! ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/264 "2025-11-30T13:41:36Z")
> [@CapriRacer](#): > > > [@TheWonderful90s](#): > > > > 1/2" OSB 4 by 8’ sheets are now around .42 inches. > > Really?? That makes no sense at all. > > I hope you realize that if I go down to the lumber yard and measure even one 1/2” OSB at 48” long, your credibility is completely shot!! > > Not that it was good before. > > Also doing my part to get to 300! I think he meant 1/2" thick is now only 0.42" thick, but still the normal 4’x8’ wide/long… ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/265 "2025-11-30T13:42:14Z")
> [@CapriRacer](#): > > I hope you realize that if I go down to the lumber yard and measure even one 1/2” OSB at 48” long, your credibility is completely shot!! He’s referencing the thickness, not the length. There’s a decimal point in front of the 42… ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/266 "2025-11-30T13:52:28Z")
> [@TwinTurbo](#): > > There’s a decimal point in front of the 42… That is why I learned a long time ago to always put a 0 in front of that decimal point when no whole number was used… I also refused to tell a customer that their bill was $29.98, I always said $30.00 cause very few people ever hear the $0.98 part and only the $29 part, way less arguments doing it that way, and yes, lots of customers would cry over the less than a dollar amount… I DON’T miss dealing with people everyday… lol ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869/267 "2025-11-30T14:19:56Z")
Yep, my wife was that way. If I asked how much something cost the only response was “it was on sale”. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869.md?page=12) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-soon-will-it-be-before-they-down-size-a-gallon-of-gasoline/184869.md?page=14)