Has anyone asked someone currently in grade school how much they weigh? How tall thy are? How far away something is? The answers are always in english units. Any time the school system works on teaching our kids how to convert units there a giant waste of precious teaching time!!!! Until this changes american companies will have a workforce that is behind the rest of the world that speaks metric! This is a barrier for the technical trades, social issues (try to order a pint of beer in Italy) and for international trade (it is an artificl trade barrier for goods coming into the US). 

 Bob Wettermann
PH 847-767-5745




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From: "Stadem, Richard D." <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:01:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] European Union Council Directive 80/181/EEC (Metric Directive)

I'll plead the fifth.

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Er..........the engineers have taken to drinking liters instead of pints
to
fall in line with it ............a very wavy line at that......



John Burke

(408) 515 4992



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Subject: [TN] European Union Council Directive 80/181/EEC (Metric
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Have any of your companies started to convert to meet this EU Directive?



Phil Nutting







John Burke

(408) 515 4992




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