Pat, Do you have an updated accurate list as to the status of metrication in each of the world's countries?
________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 10:36:08 PM Subject: [USMA:48118] Re: attitudes Dear John, Thanks for the reference. Most interesting. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. On 2010/07/08, at 23:52 , John Frewen-Lord wrote: Does America not adopt the metric system out of sheer bloody-mindedness? On the BP oil spill, this article I find very telling (mostly imperial unfortunately). The UK is not much better, at least at governmental level. The day America changes its attitude to the rest of the world (of which SI is a fundamental part) is the day that the US will regain its pre-eminence, not until. > >http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html#ixzz0sGacwW4e > > >John F-L
