Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
To me the real question is: "When is the US going to wake up to the fact that we're on the metric system?
Medications are metric, liquor is metric, cars are gradually converting to metric, grocery stores and the Home Depot are about 1/2 and 1/2. It looks to me like the only people who haven't figured it out yet are the law makers. They keep telling us that we're on the English system but today the English system is metric.
We went metric many Moons ago but we are still 50/50 on metric and imperial. At one point it became illegal to sell thing in the Imperial range. I could not buy 1 lb of vetables but I could but 458 grammes -or the lb equivalent. The government has just relented because too many of us do not want the metric for everything- + it does not make sense most of the time. We buy Petrol in litres but most people mentally convert to 4.5 litres to a gallon so they can work out the MPG they get on their car.
So
officially we are going metric but
officially it doesn't matter if we don't.