From: James J. Wentworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 4, 2001 19:37 >I just heard on the radio that George W. Bush has selected Don Evans to be >his Commerce Secretary, and that Mr. Evans' Senate confirmation is going >smoothly. > >The report's description of Mr. Evans sounds like it may be good for us. It >said that he is a personal friend of Mr. Bush and an oil man who strongly >supports expanding free trade. To that end, he might be friendly toward the >idea of US metrication to make our products more desirable to international >customers. He will have his hands full cleaning up that pathetic parochial patois of the Oil (and Gas) Patch! His first job should probably be to excise Deg API from their lexicon. Then he can get on with that bastardized use of Roman Numeral in such as MBbls/d; MMbbls and so on. Then, he might go after those "acres" in undersea oil/gas claims. Duncan >Jason >
