[USMA:34581] Re: FW: What is stopping metrication? (Was spelling)

[Philip S Hall]

Jim Elwell wrote:
And, to be sure, nothing ever posted on this forum has convinced me we 
"need" to do it quickly, since such posts never address the costs of 
metricating.

Have you considered Jim, the suggestion, which I think has been mentioned 
before, that metricating slowly makes it more expensive?

I can't offer chapter and verse evidenceof the true cost of these things but 
I am prepared to believe that working in a situation of partial metrication, 
and so having to cope with dual measures is wasteful. Hence the longer it 
goes on the more it will cost.

We have to face up to the cost of metrication sure, but unless we believe 
that the short term costs will be outweighed by the longer term savings how 
can we sell the idea to businesses?

Phil Hall