From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.YOUR letter writer D Birch (Yorkshire Post, January 10) rightly draws attention to the fact that we are now paying over six pounds a gallon for petrol.Though I generally take a sanguine view of the obsolescence of imperial measures, I believe the change to selling petrol by the litre has enabled successive British governments to pull off an invaluable (to them) sleight of hand: a weapon not available to their French and American counterparts. A penny on a litre is more than four and a half pence on a gallon; a hike that no government would get away with so regularly if we were still buying by the gallon.Incidentally, the response from our once militant hauliers has been strangely timid. Are they resigned, or have I missed something?
