<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">The odd thing is that in many countries that have converted there are some really strange exceptions. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">In Canada the construction industry, including I believe HVAC still uses imperial.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">In the UK road distances are in miles but fuel is dispensed in litres making fuel economy calculations a tad odd!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Of course now here in Canada, as in most of the civilized world, fuel economy is expressed in litres per 100 km which to someone of my age is a bit confusing because "more is worse" rather than "more is better" as it was in MPG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">M<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:12 PM Robert Begani <<a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank">rfbegani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">What I heard back in the day, a Michigan congressman saw a dual speed limit sign in English mph and Metric kph. He thought “why should I and my constituents have to learn a European Language”. Unfortunately, the Michigan car makers encourage him to propose an amendment to the US law which provided for a 10 year transition to the metric system of weights and measures. This amendment put a temporary hold on the progress and has never been removed so there was no progression require conversion, to teach school children to learn and so on. However, there are many roads in the USA which still have dual signs which by law cannot be removed as they are under phase one of the law. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Every country in the world using the English system of weights and measures signed the international treaty and began to covert to the metric systems, except the USA. In all those countries children began to learn the system in the 60’s and the use of dual signs and gauges were acceptable until everyone in these countries became knowledgeable in the metric system. Too bad we had to say “wait a minute “ which has lasted our lifetimes.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Note, all automobiles, and many manufactured products are fully metric today except the humans which use them.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Bob Begani</span> <u></u><u></u></p><div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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