I'm wondering what kind of economic damage has been/is being done to the country's industries when some businesses operate only in metric and others try to resist it as much as possible. For example, if I design a product in metric and send it to you to make for me and you tell me you can't do metric. So I don't give you the job. What about industries that have to produce double inventories, an English version and a metric version. Fasteners come to mind.
What about the loss of export business when foreign companies and consumers won't buy non-metric goods or services? Has anyone ever added up the costs? Obviously Congress does not care if American industries have a cost burden that can hurt them in bad times, as we are experiencing now. Simon -------------------------------------------------- From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 2009-08-14 16:09 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [USMA:45631] Re: OK Simon.....try this. > I am not optimistic that it would happen, but the answer is Congress and a > law. Those (or 95% or them) who would go metric voluntarily already have. > The rest will have to be told to. > > However, Congress' past track record is to weaken other attempts, such as > undermining the DOT's attempt to make all the State DOTs go metric, at least > for federal projects, and the attempt to make all Federal construction go > metric (Imperial bricks and lighting fixtures have to be considered and the > building built off metric standards if those are cheaper. > > In my opinion, there is zero chance that Congress would pass the necessary > laws to make this country metric. > > > --- On Fri, 8/14/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Subject: [USMA:45631] Re: OK Simon.....try this. >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 3:50 PM >> >> So, how do we get the ball >> rolling? What >> needs to be done to jump start the metric >> conversion? Do we need a >> government direct edict? >> >> Simon > >
