Did they just miss the memo or was it a deliberate decision? And why did people use the metric system anyway?
2006-06-15 06:41:53 · 10 answers · asked by gila monster 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Because Americans are stubborn.
2006-06-15 06:44:20 · answer #1 · answered by Juicy 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No clue - it was planned in the 1950's, lots of nice black and white school films explaining how the metric system works and why we were going to adopt it as our national system... then nada. *shrugs*
2006-06-15 06:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by weofui 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should we switch? Just because the French did not want an English system the world should change, bah!
2006-06-15 06:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by psycmikev 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably just economic reasons at this time -- the entire industrial machinery would have to be re-tooled. Think about it -- not just the automotive industry , but every manufacturer-- the machines that make them, the tools for working on them, even down to the containers that ship them.
2006-06-15 06:56:23 · answer #4 · answered by Aunt Connie 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't do justice to this question in the space here, but there is a whole article about it on wikipedia that you should check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States
2006-06-15 06:47:57 · answer #5 · answered by dccircuit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c america will be it's own on this and anyone that tries to stop us from using our traditional measuring system is a terrorist and will be stopped.
2006-06-15 06:44:46 · answer #6 · answered by 1_haute_momma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because
a.) We wan't everything to go our way.
b.) We are to lazy to learn anything new.
2006-06-15 06:45:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
little kid because we dont want to have a prob
2006-06-15 06:45:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably because of a union...
2006-06-15 06:44:54 · answer #9 · answered by Maya 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's arrogance.
2006-06-15 06:44:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋