Dreaming of a white Easter....

[DRNewcomb]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

Yup we still make our kids learn there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1840 yards (or 5,280 feet)

Even after you go metric you still have to remember there's 1852 m in a NM. That won't change until we can change the radius of the earth. I seriously doubt that land surveying will ever become metric because the whole system of property records was set up over 200 years ago. So kids in schools will still have to learn these units. The problem with the US and metric is that we're still a democratic country where old people have nothing better to do than vote in every single election and they don't want to change. No politician is going to risk his office to push metrification. Rather, we're engaged in creeping metrification. We now sell cans of soft drinks by the ounce but big bottles are 1 & 2 liters. All wine and liquor are sold in metric containers. OTHO, milk is sold by quarts and gallons. 40 years ago if your car needed metric tools you'd have to take it to a "foreign car" repair shop. I think that today most American cars are metric, except for the odometer and spedometer. With the exception of the use of strange units like "tons" and "BTUs" the electrical system has always been metric.