I have sent this letter to the editor: Dear sir, madam,
I have read the following article: "Joules, BTUs, Quads-Let's Call the Whole Thing Off By Harry Goldstein and William Sweet" Please let the authors of this article know that as a citizen of a country that uses the metric system - The Netherlands - and as an ardent supporter and user of metric I totally reject their proposal for the global adoption of the CMO (Cubic Mile of Oil". I expect that all metric nations and international standardization organisations like ISO etc. will reject this proposal within two seconds after having heard of it. The joule with the appropriate use of SI-decimal prefixes is the unit of energy. All other units of energy should be consigned to history and this CMO should be stillborn. Yours sincerely, Han Maenen, The Netherlands
