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To: benwood who wrote (18718)	4/26/2011 10:10:34 AM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (2) of 119360

<< I almost ran out on Sunday while I eased my way to Bellingham from Canada so I could avoid their $6/gallon gas (my guestimate, they sell it in these "liters" LOL some gov't scam I think, but I digress...) Canada and the US were supposed to convert to the metric system in the 1970s. Canada made the conversion (with some kicking, screaming, and whining). You guys got bogged down in the usual Congressional politics (elected folks making all the right decisions, getting things done). Now only the USA, Burma, and Liberia are still on the old British system. "Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 "to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the United States"...<doh!>Voluntary conversion was initiated</doh!>...." ...."<doh!>Some members of Congress attempted to ban use of the metric system on federal highways in 1992 and 1993</doh!>. These bills were not popular in the House of Representatives and failed before a vote...." en.wikipedia.org

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