[USMA:28961] metric speeds

[john mercer]

Hello i was reading messages this evening and there was a posting about if speeds and gasoline went metric in the States there would be more resistance.  As i have said on this list before if speed and distance signs were all done at the same time people would get used to them quickly.  That's the only way to do it, if some states were in kilometers and some in miles metric would never be accepted.  It's the same with changing from gallons to liters, in Canada it was all done at the same time. I would like to make another comment.  Anti EU groups in the U K in my opinion are using the metric system as a wipping board.  They can use it because it affects every person.  They sure try to  get people to think that everybody in the UK hates both the metric system and the EU. I dare say that in the U K there are probably more people worrying about joining the EU then worrying whether the U K uses metric.  I also agree with Jim that forced metrication in the States will never work. If metric speed and distance signs came on US roads would that  have to be a government law?  Are metric speed and distance signs legal in the States.