Wow, Mike you're pretty optimistic. I'm looking at a 100 years or more, and that's no April Fools. What's happening in the US is the classic scenario of boiling the frog alive by gradually heating the cold water to 100 degrees rather than dropping the frog into a pot of boiling water from which it'll jump out. If the gradual metrication of our juices, cleaning products, and shampoos gathers enough momentum, then hopefully other companies outside of Coca-Cola, P&G, and Pepsico will start resizing their products to hard metric sizes. Volumes, it seems, are the ones easiest to get implemented, so perhaps in coming decades, all of our drinks will go metric. And if we're really lucky, we'll buy our gas by the liter in 50 years. My outlook may be more pessimistic, but considering this little experiment in Indiana, it'll probably be easier to boil the frog by starting with cold water.
On 4/1/06, Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Judging from the angry volume of responses they got I don't think any state would dare EVER switch anything :). They'd have the mob going for their blood.
It makes me wonder if the only way we'll go fully metric is if we continue the gradual transition over the next 20 years or so. Phase it in rather than announcing it and pushing for a quick transition as we should have done.
Mike
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