[USMA:33040] Re: the 600 mL size beverage bottle

[carletonm]

I think this comes up on the list from time to time because the nature of the opposition to getting rid of the $1 bill, and of the opposition to abandoning inch-pound, is similar (and a lot of it is the same people).

 

Carleton

 

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> Changing the substance that makes up a dollar bill is hardly radical.
>
> At the end of the day both are still called and worth one dollar.
>
> If they replaced the dollar bill with a coin but gave it a different number
> for the same value then I could understand.
>
> (This happened in many european states a few years ago)
>
> I've got this strange feeling that people are somehow equating the 'paper to
> coin' scenario with 'imperial to metric'.
>
> The two are fundamentally different.
>
> >From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association"
> >Subject: [USMA:33020] Re: the 600 mL size beverage bottle
> >Date: Tue, 3! 1 May 2005 14:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >
> > > If it was up to the government, the paper dollar
> > > would be gone and we would
> > > only have the dollar coin (like our Canadian
> > > cousins). Then again, if it
> > > was truly up to the government, we would be
> > > predominately metric by now too
> > > :-).
> >
> >Who's forcing the US government to not eliminate the
> >dollar coin? What would happen if the US government
> >unilaterally eliminated the dollar bill?
> >
> >In Canada, the dollar bill was eliminated and replaced
> >with a coin. People grumbled for a while, and that
> >was that. No revolts, no coups d'etat, no civil war.
> >
>