That was Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) who deleted the due date for metric
compliance. He was not from Alabama. I wrote to him on this issue while
it was in committee and he sent a personal reply, assuring me that state
highway departments would not revert. Right!
Jim
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On 2012-02-13 09:24, Michael Payne wrote:
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]
<mailto:[email protected]>>/* wrote:
From: Jason D Darfus <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [USMA:51461] CBS Sunday Morning Almanac spot
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
