It might be useful to write to the South Dakota official who believed that consumers in his/her state were "not familiar with the metric system" with regard to changing the unit volume for gasoline sales due current prices. He is referring to the liter. He/she should be challenged on the notion that the liter is a unit of volume that is unfamiliar to the people of South Dakota. The liter has been a mainstay of the carbonated beverage industry for 30 years, and is often the preferred unit quoted in advertising for those products.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Editor, "Metric Today" U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two cardinal sins, from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness." ---Franz Kafka
