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HeyBub HeyBub is offline
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Default your thoughts on metric

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Ask the companies that have not been able to sell their products and
machines overseas because the other countries want metric. It may not
affect you, but it certainly does affect some people. If you don't
want to participate in a world economy, you don't have to.


Hmm. Saw a report today that China is creeping up on $1 trillion in exports.
Much of that to the US and all in Imperial measure. Point is, if countries
want to export to the US, it better not be metric.

Reality check: Do Japanese autos imported to the US have speedometers in
KPH?