What makes you think that the European Union won't simply extend the non-metric deadline for another ten years. Nah. They'd never do that. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: November 19, 2001 18:42 Subject: [USMA:16248] Re: Fwd: How long will it the US to be 100metric?
> US metrication is, to me anyway, a most fascinating issue. It pegs politics and nationalism against a form of common sense which the American people have been stubbornly unwilling to embrace. I embraced it wholeheartedly in 1974, when I found solving practical measurement problems to be infinitely easier in SI than in our current "system" (which I termed WOMBAT, or Way Of Measuring Badly in America Today). Yet, America's lack of common sense is closing in on her. Around 2009, the European Union will no longer deal in non-metric products, and the world's greatest case of procrastination will come home to roost in the US Congress. Then, it may be a matter of catch-up, and it will be a painful catch-up to boot.
