You win some, you lose some, and some are rained out. G. H. W. Bush's Executive Order 12770 almost brought about metric highways by making the Federal government go metric, until Congress overturned it by prohibiting certain efforts by FWHA to force the State DOTs to go metric. As a result, all the States have now returned to inch-pound highways (for metric cars to run on).
On the other hand, the FPLA and UPLR have at least required dual marking on most consumer goods, and the UPLR, on items it applies to, allows metric-only in 48 of 50 States. The FPLA may yet be amended to allow metric-only; however, it must be confessed, they've been screwing with the proposal since 2002, so unbridled optimism is unwarranted. The FPLA amendment requiring metric was signed into law in 1992, although it took effect in 1994. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 6:02:56 PM Subject: [USMA:49466] History of Past Januraries A reporter war restating what happen in past Januraries that the paper had reported it also included the 'failed' American Metrics. I had corrected him (or the paper) with a comment below, thanks to Pat knowledge that I passed on. The replied back to me to thank me, and say he was only reporting what the paper had stories on, not his opinion, not that a whole lot of people realy knew the True facts, Republicans are sneaky that way. http://faribault.com/news.php?viewStory=104258 Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
