On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:47:21 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/9/2016 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system.

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And those Americans are a bit short sighted.

I don't see it changing much. The push was on many years ago but it
seemed to have fizzled out.

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It didn't just fizzle out. There was a federal mandate back in the
'70s or thereabouts to start gradually converting the US to the metric
system. All of the reasons were good. As soon as the first highway
signs started showing up with both miles and kilometers, there was a
huge hue and cry from middle america that the whole thing was a
communistic global plot to overthrow all that was good and holy. It
was almost as emotional as some of the religious issues these days.