[USMA:36581] Re: metric stands alone

[Mike Millet]

With that in mind I wonder how the US public would react to buying gas by the liter? It'd be thoroughly confusing buying by the liter and calculating fuel efficiency in miles per gallon but at least you'd be using a metric measure when you buy it.

I wrote the FMI which is the main organization blocking amending the FPLA and have yet to receive a reply but I'm still holding out hope

Mike

On 4/17/06, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

In Albertson's last night, I saw a huge store display of 2 L Coca Cola bottles
bearing a sign representing them as 2-liter bottles. There was no mention of
fluid ounces or quarts on the sign. This matter-of-fact exclusive statement of
the liter tells me that the liter is a part of U.S. psychology. I would think
that the beverage makers would successfully exercise their metric-only option
under an amended FPLA.

Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
U.S . Metric Association, Inc.
Phone (432)528-7724
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
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