With some modest funding to hire the right talent, we could probably assemble an array of organizations and interest groups that could effectively pressure FMI to drop opposition to metric-only, or to counter their weight in congress (perhaps immigrant groups, food importers, educators, scientific and medical organizations, etc.). A bunch of the members of FMI are not even American companies, and wouldn't take much to sway, if they're even aware of FMI's stance on this issue today. And metric conversion is probably number 12,712 on FMI's list of legislative priorities.
There really are no efforts to raise the funds we would need to have any hope of making an impact, right? Can anyone comment on why not? Since joining USMA about a year ago, this has surprised me more than anything else.
