[USMA:36433] Re: April 1

[Mike Millet]

Actually I think conversion may move faster once the older generation of politicians and business leaders pass on into retirement. Not meaning this as a flame in any way, it's just that it seems that among my own age group and anyone under say the age of 40, metrication is treated more like a "I really hope we do convert it's so much easier" not some sort of foreign measuring system that's being imposed against our wills.

I'm really hoping that the amendment to the FPLA does get passed in the next few years if only because it would be a major step towards full metrication, but until we replace the set in their ways type of people no progress will be made. I highly doubt any state will be brave enough to do it on its own, although the progress of state laws allowing metric only labeling might suggest otherwise. Who knows, maybe it'll take ten or twenty adventurous states allowing full metrication to prompt the federal government to do it :)

Mike

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