On Saturday 14 March 2009 11:36:11 mech...@illinois.edu wrote: > John, > > More recently than the Act of 1866 legalizing metric units is PL 100-418 > (designating SI as preferred for US trade and commerce...), also an Act of > Congress. > > I believe that President Obama will eventually express support, rather than > efforts to repeal, these Acts.
Given what he's done so far, I wouldn't count on him doing anything sensible. > Let's draft a new Executive Order (and submit it for consideration by the > White House); an order which reduces easy evasion by Departments and > Agencies of the Executive Branch. > > I'm also thinking of a new draft of the FPLA rather than a mere Amendment > since NIST must resubmit its draft anyway. > > Perhaps we can debate various drafts in this USMA forum? Sounds good. I'd like to see a provision that fruits and vegetables and grains may not be sold by volume, and that the dry pint and related units are abolished. If the rural peach stands complain, let them complain. I've seen scales for sale on the Web. The legal-for-trade ones looked like something one would install at a checkout counter in a grocery store. There should be scales legal for trade that a peach stand can use for weighing the peaches, or that a soapmaker can use for weighing soap bars, which are legal for trade but not as complicated or expensive as that. Pierre
