Sadly with so much disagreement about so many things right now metric is not a top priority. No need to give up just keep pushing on the grass roots level.
Howard From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ezra Steinberg Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 11:12 PM To: Brian White <[email protected]> Cc: USMA List Server <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA 1602] Re: The SI and the new administration ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. Time to just give up, i guess. 🙄 On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 8:06 PM Brian White <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If it's that easy, why wasn't it done 10 years ago, or 25, or 40? Won't happen. And if it's brought up, then it's an "us vs them" political fight which actually then sets us back. On Nov 22, 2020, at 19:46, Ezra Steinberg <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:  The good news is that Bill Nye (The Science Guy) hosted Senator Chuck Schumer of NY the other day to talk about the need to move aggressively to address the climate crisis, which Schumer wholeheartedly agreed with. At one point during the interview Nye implied how we finally need in the USA to convert to metric by making a slightly snide remark about how archaic Fahrenheit was, which gave me the strong impression he favors metrication. (He may have even been more explicit in other appearances he has made on TV over the years, which would not surprise me.) So, if both Senate races in Georgia go to the Democrats, Schumer becomes Majority Leader. At that point we can contact Nye to see if he can prevail on Schumer to get legislation passed to at least allow metric only labels on products and maybe pass other measures to start easing the USA into metric. Ezra On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:06 AM Robert Price <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Sad to say, but I agree. Obama wasn't too warm to metric and I don't see why his former vice president will be any different. On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 9:30:56 PM CST, Brian White <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Not a chance anything will change. Sad to say but true. On Nov 19, 2020, at 19:04, J McClellan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:  So is anyone here at all even a bit more hopeful that there might be some forward metric movement in the US with a new (purportedly more progressive) administration? I've already got a letter ready to send out on the 26th of January :P Hope everybody here does the same!! GO METRIC, AMERICA! Because the kings' foot STINKS. _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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