That's why unit-pricing is so important, and consumer and consumer protection organizations strongly the advocate the use of unit-pricing. Stan Doore
----- Original Message ----- From: Carleton MacDonald To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 9:35 PM Subject: [USMA:40365] Re: No more 'horsepower' on small engines in USA That's actually a very good question. cm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: John Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 20:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:40364] Re: No more 'horsepower' on small engines in USA In this case, then why aren't television and computer screen sizes marketed in centimeters? Carleton MacDonald wrote: It's the same reason why Canadian and UK merchants still want to promotepricing by the pound. The horsepower is smaller than the kilowatt. So if you can advertise yourcar in horsepower, the number is bigger. Size matters. The pound is smaller than the kilogram. So if you can advertise your applesor steak by the pound, the price is smaller. Size still matters. It's all about marketeering. Carleton -----Original Message-----From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On BehalfOf Ziser, JesseSent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 16:16To: U.S. Metric AssociationSubject: [USMA:40360] Re: No more 'horsepower' on small engines in USA Hmm... poundal-acre-fortnights per gry-year, perhaps? (1 PAFPGY = 0.0489 Nm) I doubt we'll see engine power in sane units in the US for a long, longtime. "Horsepower" is acompound of two "manly" words, besides which automakers seem to benefit fromtricking theircustomers into thinking that the car is literally the equivalent of so many"horses", even to theextent of advertising using that word. Too bad it's a lie (1 HP is not thepower produced by onehorse). --- Remek Kocz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Judging by this article, though, it looks like they're doing the next worst thing: torque. I'll let you take a guess what units they'd standardize on. Hint: it's not newton meters. Remek On Feb 1, 2008 7:33 PM, Michael G. Koerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From the 2008-02-01 Milwaukee, WI Journal-Sentinal (ran on the front page below the fold): http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=713480 "Seems the term, 'horsepower' is going the way of the buggy By RICK [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jan. 31, 2008 When you buy lawn and garden equipment this spring, a familiar old term - horsepower - will be missing from many engines. Blame it on lawyers, or engine makers who might have fudged the numbers,buthorsepower is no longer the gold standard for small gasoline engines. Sears, for example, now advertises some lawn mowers rated by horsepower,others by torque, and still others by cubic centimeters. And some mowershaveno such designation at all. "Unfortunately, we are not giving consumers the answers they want," saidBillRotter, an owner of National Ace Hardware stores in the Milwaukee area. There's no longer a horsepower rating for many Briggs & Stratton engines. Lastyear, Briggs chose torque as its rating system for push mowers, snowthrowers,pressure washers and generators." (See link for rest of article) No mention of watts, but it appears to be a start. --___________________________________________ ____ _______________Regards, | |\ ____ | | | | |\Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | riseagain!Appleton, Wisconsin USA | | | | | |___________________________________________ | | | | | |_______________ ____________________________________________________________________________________Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
