Well, *The government forces the wine and spirit industries to use metric sized bottles *The government forces all foods and "consumables" to be dual labelled in Customary and metric *The government supposedly procures its supplies in metric and requires construction of Federal buildings to be metric (I believe there are significant loopholes that somewhat dilute this.) *The government forces the airlines to accept a mixed mess of units in the aviation weather product known as METAR. The temperature and dewpoint are degrees C, but everything else is Customary.
On the other hand, they don't do much to finish the job, or ensure children get an adequate metric education, and other government agencies (EIA) refuse to supply information (energy usage) in metric units to industries that have already voluntarily converted (automotive). --- On Fri, 3/6/09, Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:43389] RE: Mistaken blather from a correspondent on another > list > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 9:03 PM > But so far the government hasn't really become involved > to a point that affects consumers. Whatever metric we > encounter comes from the free choice of people. For > example, did the government force any industry to go > metric? Yet, there are those who have freely chosen to do > so.
