Don't forget that there is already good metric legislation prepared, ready to be submitted to committee. It is the NIST update of the FPLA. This is a politician's dream, and ought to get bi-partisan support. It does not spend any taxpayer money. It does not set any deadline dates. It does not increase regulation, and in fact, actually decreases regulation. So what politician could possibly be opposed to something so completely innocuous? Do not wait until Bill Nye gets involved. (Which may never happen concerning metrication, because he does not seem to indicate it is a major issue to him) Do not wait for the new Congress or the new President or even the new Secretary of Commerce, who, hopefully will be more like Maurice Stans than Ms. Pritzker. Get involved now, and if we can find a sponsor in the house and senate, we can get this legislation submitted to committee as soon as congress convenes in January. MArk Henschel
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:46 PM Ezra Steinberg <[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]> > 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]> wrote: >> >> >> Not a chance anything will change. Sad to say but true. >> >> On Nov 19, 2020, at 19:04, J McClellan <[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] >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> _______________________________________________ >> USMA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> _______________________________________________ >> USMA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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