My feeling is that most Americans don't really care, period.  If a
reasonable plan was put in place and stuck to, people would gripe for the
first week or so after each changeover then pretty much realize the world
didn't end and life goes on.  After some time, they may even wonder why it
wasn't done earlier.  It is the vocal minority that is the problem.

Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Brian J White
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:21 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:30958] Re: UK wants to go metric

I'd guess 40% of Americans would like to as well if polled.   There are 
more people I talk to that would LOVE to go metric, but they don't feel 
strongly enough about it to become an "activist" like most of us here.


At 14:15 2004-09-01, David King wrote:
>According to BBC website, a poll suggests that 62% of UK citizens want the 
>UK to complete the changeover to metric
>
>1 sept 2004
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3934353.stm
>
>--
>David King

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