Dear All, This first answer writer has a point of view that is certainly different to mine: http://www.answerbag.co.uk/q_view/2365915
The last big-government push toward internal metrication was in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Ronald Reagan, as part of his philosophy and voter mandate to get government bullying out of people's affairs, took a hands-off approach to metrication. … At present, continuing everyday use of imperial and dual measurements is not necessarily a "bad" or "worse" thing, but a symbolic legacy of American freedom. There are few such symbolic legacies left as the reach of government gets ever more intrusive, but with the latest electoral repudiation of B. Hussein Obama's big-government agenda, there is hope of restoration, which can bring the same 20-year run of prosperity that was spawned by the Reagan era. Wasting "a trillion dollars this year and a trillion dollars next year" on non-metrication is not, in my opinion, a sure way to a "run of prosperity". See http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf 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 for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
