Joseph B. Reid wrote: >>If customers hate buying in pounds, if he has obsolete >>equipment, if he wants to still "ride a horse," why do >>we need to prosecute him? >> >>He will go out of business on his own. > >Canadian experience indicate that this won't happen.
The major point that Jim was making was that once it is established that the status quo is not harmful, then he cannot support a change mandated by law. Even if that means that metrication never happens. The minor point he was making is that he does believe it will happen eventually.
