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Old 04-23-2012, 03:16 PM  
baryl
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It's mostly an issue of cost. Think about how much it would cost to go and replace every highway sign and everything else related to the measurement system. Several hundred billion dollars for what benefit?
They do use the metric in the sciences and technical fields.
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