I don't there was a lot of resistance to gas pump conversion in the early 80's, despite what the naysayers say. The only issue was they couldn't coordinate a complete changeover, and people got tired of two systems.
Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Ward Sent: Thursday, 2004 February 26 12:49 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:28941] Re: metric martyrs I agree that most Americans aren't anti-metric. However, I think if you change the gas pumps to measure in liters or road signs to m, km, & km/h then you will see stronger and broader resistance. On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most people don't care, and wouldn't mind if metrication happened, but > it's not the end of the world to them if it doesn't. Few will write > to Congress about doing it (we are an exception of course). > > A few mind very much, and whine and complain. Congress gets messages > from them and thinks they are representative since they are most of > the people doing the writing.
