Well, those execs are right. Not because the people care, but for items covered under FPLA, the law REQUIRES dual, so blame the law not the company. For items covered by the UPLR, we still have one or two States that require dual and the balance allow dual or metric-only. So dual is the easy out for the entire country. But understand the companies HAVE to do it for compliance reasons, not necessarily because they want to.
So blame Congress and the legislature of the remaining holdout State(s). ________________________________ From: Henschel Mark <mw-hensch...@neiu.edu> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Wed, March 13, 2013 9:19:18 PM Subject: [USMA:52524] RE: (4) Ten reasons to hate... I don't know all the latest details of all American companies that are metric, but I suspect it is a lot more than most people think. I continually see shampoo and skin lotion in containers that are clearly metric (400 ml, 650 ml, etc.) but are marked with some stupid ounce size that makes no sense and is clearly unnecessary. USMA did publish a Metric Vendors list a few years back, perhaps the webmaster knows is there is an electronic version now. My understanding is that about 30 percent of US industry is metric in the USA, so what that would be in billions of dollars, I don't know. It is just a lot more than people think because the stupid corporate executives are convinced the people will not buy their products unless they are labeled with an inch-pound size. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: Kilopascal <kilopas...@cox.net> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:07 pm Subject: [USMA:52521] RE: (4) Ten reasons to hate... To: mw-hensch...@neiu.edu, "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > > > > > > Mark, > > Do you know what the total value of those companies > are? How much of the total industrial output of the US is > metric? > > Who else is metric besides these? > > > > [USMA:52521] RE: (4) Ten reasons to hate... > Henschel Mark Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:35:42 -0700 > Xerox. GM, John Deere, Chrysler, Ford, Caterpillar and IBM > all use metric exclusively. Most of these companies converted to metric so > many > > years ago (I did training sessions in the 1970's) that they don't print >"metric" > > on their drawings anymore. They just assume the worker who reads the > blueprints > > will know the measurements are all > metric. > > MArk >
