Are all NIST policies still in WOMBAT`?
Bill Potts wrote:
> I see you're overreacting and using hyperbole again, Michael.
>
> What did you expect? He's talking mainly about past and current U.S.
> practice -- that is, historically factual stuff. He's not stating a
> preference, nor is he making a recommendation regarding units of
> measure.
>
> Note that, in his section on Canada, he quite appropriately uses SI.
> The only conversion he does (parenthetically) is with respect to
> percentage volume change by temperature. Providing the conversion is
> legitimate, in this case, in that it allows a comparison with U.S.
> industry standards.
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Behalf Of Michael-O
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:39
>> To: U.S. Metric Association
>> Subject: [USMA:26462] RE: Fuel in the US
>>
>>
>> oooohhh, plz not again
>>
>> so much WOMBAT on this page, I had to puke!
>>
>> bye
>>
>>
>> Bill Potts wrote:
>>> I just did a Google search with the following argument: 9/10
>>> gasoline pricing.
>>>
>>> One of the hits,
>>> http://www.users.qwest.net/~taaaz/AZgas.html#A%20LITTLE%20HISTORY,
>>> is a very interesting discussion of this and many other aspects of
>>> gasoline pricing and dispensing.
>>>
>>> Bill Potts, CMS
>>> Roseville, CA
>>> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Brian White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 09:40
>>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; U.S. Metric Association
>>>> Subject: Re: [USMA:26457] RE: Fuel in the US
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Bill, but if I remember right there were specific reasons
>>>> for it related to taxes or something of the sort. It's definately
>>>> a legacy thing completely unrelated to the (very annoying) habit of
>>>> labelling
>>>> everything in
>>>> retail X.99.
>>>>
>>>> There's supposedly a real reason for it, which is what I'm curious
>>>> about. Anyone know?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Original Message -----------
>>>> From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> Sent: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:34:49 -0700
>>>> Subject: [USMA:26457] RE: Fuel in the US
>>>>
>>>>> Brian White wrote:
>>>>>> Speaking of that...does anyone know what the whole 9/10ths
>>>> thing is about
>>>>>> with fuel prices in the US?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's what I've always called the department store pricing
>>>>> syndrome.
>>>>>
>>>>> A department store will price something at $99.98 or $99.99,
>>>>> leading many people (including my wife) to think of the price as
>>>>> being "not much more than $90."
>>>>>
>>>>> If a competitor priced the same item at $100.00, and it was
>>>>> something I needed, I would buy from the competitor in
>>>>> appreciation of their honesty -- and I would let them know that.
>>>>> (Although if another competitor offered the same item for, say,
>>>>> $85.00 [or even $84.99], I'd do the rational thing and buy from
>>>>> them.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Gas stations are, of course, selling to the same people as the
>>>>> department stores.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill Potts, CMS
>>>>> Roseville, CA
>>>>> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>>>> ------- End of Original Message -------
