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Keep in mind, you can buy survey
results.
You can ask only those know to give certain answers, you
can pay people to give certain answers and you can discard answers you don't
like. That is why polls and surveys are never taken seriously.
I posted this here because I feel we should know the BWMA
tactics. We thinkif we ignore them, they will go away. But they are
fighting the last battle for their lives and they pull every dirty trick in the
book. We have to be aware.
As for Ireland, it will take about 10 years to complete
road conversion. Yes, the signs will be done overnight, but the cars with
mile odometers will take a lot longer to decay away. I doubt people will
spend the money to make the change. And you can bet that after K-day in
the UK, every member of the BWMA will hold on to their old cars just to keep the
mile indicators or find some way to convert new cars to miles.
Euric
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Sent: Sunday, 2004-07-25 14:37
Subject: [USMA:30521] Re: Latest
NEWS
I assume that a large proportion of no-voters are
members of the BWMA and/or the UKIP. They know what they want and will vote on
this issue whenever they get the chance. 2340 votes are not very
convincing.
I am back from Ireland now. When I go back next
year I hope that road metrication will have been accomplished. However, I
would like to be there if that happens. I will go back anyway for a week in
the last week of February.
I wonder how soon the mpg will be buried
after road metrication? But the kilomile (used in car ads indicating the
distance a car has already covered) will only go slowly with the replacement
of mile-odometers.
Han
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Sent: Sunday, 2004-07-25 19:18
Subject: [USMA:30516] Latest NEWS
| Latest news
(July 9th 2004) |
Teletext poll shows 93% oppose
scrapping of mile and
pint
A phone in poll conducted by ITV's
teletext service found 93% of 2,340 callers opposed the idea of doing
away with traditional measurements, such as pints and miles. The poll
was conducted in response to a call by the UK Metric Association that
Britain should go totally metric. |
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