Sounds like you talked to some a--holes. Most all liquid containers
come marked in both measures here. Most of my tools are duplicated in
metric sizes, since I've driven Japan or Euro cars for years. Say, do
you have any probs finding tools locally for your LBC?
Cheers,
CR
Eric wrote:
>
> I still love it that when I first visited America in the mid-eighties on
> business I asked when the US might be going metric. The answer I got
> was a quite definite "NEVER". When I asked why not, when most of her
> trading partners where going (or already were) metric, the answer again
> was quite definite:
>
> "Because we don't HAVE to - our trading partners come to us, so they can
> like our weights and measures or go elsewhere"
>
> I hope that feeling has softened a touch in the ensuing twenty years :-)
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