It wasn't that the US public was opposed to metric, it was that a couple of politicians who managed to mess with the transition and stall the whole process. Without looking up references, there was an Alabama congressman who inserted language into a Highway funding bill that made the whole process voluntary and Grover Norquist who managed during the Reagan administration to get the metric transition board de funded.
Mike Payne On 12/02/2012, at 18:31 , John M. Steele wrote: > Well, their assertion that metric is only used in science is wrong. The US > has several industries that are metric internally (as well as many who > aren't). > > Of course, given the AP's opposition to metric, it is quite unreasonable to > expect any real investigative journalism of the "state of metric", vs a "puff > piece" that trashes metric in line with AP's biases. > > None of what they said is really wrong; just incomplete enough to be > misleading. > > --- On Sun, 2/12/12, Jason D Darfus <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Jason D Darfus <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:51461] CBS Sunday Morning Almanac spot > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, February 12, 2012, 6:13 PM > > Gee, I thought this mailing list would have lit up by now. Does no one else > watch Sunday Morning on CBS? > > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7398432n >
