Green Party Calls for Metric System

Don Fitz, Green Party National Committee Member in charge of Platform Development announced Friday that:

"At long last, The Green Party platform has entered the 21st Century by endorsing the immediate use of metric measurements on all signage and specifications such as miles per gallon, which would become kilometers per liter.

Conversion to metric would allow mechanics and researchers to purchase and acquaint themselves with only one set of wrenches and other tools, among a multitude of other efficiencies.

If the British can make the necessary efforts and adjustments to drive on the same side of the road as most of the world, we can make the investments in retooling and education needed to fully and quickly abandon all traces of the old British measurement system and fully adopt the metric system.

We also advocate the abolishment of the disruptive Daylight Savings Time."
https://www.greenparty.org/Platform.php

 

Hate to tell you, but mechanics have been using metric tools for a generation in the US, and the British still use MPH on their road signs. I can understand the green party not realizing this as most of its members just got their training wheels off.

 

i hate standard. Metric is way easier. Wow...i actually agree with the green party on this....never thought id see the day

 

I recall reading article of one russian embassy worker, that for couple years been in USA, about the measure systems. He was saying it was hard to learn at first, but then turned to be pretty intuitive and kinda logical even - while metric was more precise.

I guess it's like our old measires - elbows, handfuls, sajens (distance between indes fingers of stratched in T-pose arms), verstas (distance that ox can pull a plow without getting tired), buckets (I hope no explanation needed) and bags and so on. Natural, practical measures, that come from our biology, everyday life, and items that surround us. ...or surrounded, like in case of oxen.

So I am not sure, if you need to 'go metric', or not - as long as in engeneering and other precise jobs you use metric measures and international standarts.

 

Next thing you'll be solar panels on your rooftop!

 

What is wrong with solar panels?

 

We went metric back around 1979, I remember my teacher saying so.

Green party is late..

Actually surprised that we haven't just blanket switched over in the past decades. Well. Disappointed. Nothing surprise me about the USA anymore lol.

 

Me too. I hate the imperial inch system with all it's ridiculous fractions. America is so wrong on this. .

 

Nothing. Just a joke. I have solar panels!

 

Nothing like endorsing a racist system.

 

I like being 6' 2" tall. I don't want to be 189 centimeters.

 

Metric is great for science & medicine,
but for real life gimme inches, pounds and quarts.
And I come from a family of scientists and have a BSc and M.D.
I did my share of metric science classes.

I mean how many bananas are in a metric dozen.
And how many rolls in a baker's dozen.
And why not metric clocks and calendars too? Napoleon did it!
Sometimes, metric and daily life just don't fit.

And if they want foreign aid,
let them ask for it in inches, pounds and quarts.
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Moi

r > g

Metric in daily life = Creeping ism
Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.


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If the Green party goal is to allienate voters whose children attend public schools, this is a perfect way to achieve that goal. Mathematic proficiency is pretty dismal already in a fair portion of US school districts.

 

Finally, a party that starts trying to do something about the real issues affecting this country..

 

Just when you thought the greens could not be more out of touch.

 

The foreign oligarchies , the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group and the globalist tried forcing America to go metric back during the 1970's but American nationalism prevailed.

 

I certainly think having a universal system would be convenient and save a lot of wasted money, but I don't think it's a really big deal.

I also think there should be a universal language. Before the attacks start, I don't really care what that language is; and it doesn't mean anyone would or should be forced to stop using whatever their preferred language(s) might be among others who use it. I'm just saying that a universal language that everybody is taught would enable much greater communication and understanding between peoples and much greater potential for trade and social interaction as well.

And while I'm on my soapbox, I also think there should be universal standards for essential things like electrical outlets(both voltages and plug-types), electronics power supplies and charging devices (standard connectors for various voltage/wattage, USB, etc.). I probably have 30 different power supplies laying around my house for which I have no idea which appliance/tool/device it belongs.

 

Yep, I know what you mean. I used to put air in my tyres, now I put in kilopascals. Doesn't make the car go better though.

We've been metric since 1974 but there are still a few things I can't get (the above being one of them). All in all though it's a better system than the old Imperial. Easier for children to learn as everything's based on tens. Funny though the US has had metric money for years, Australia only since 1966. And another thing, I look forward to visiting a Staples when I'm in the States in the future, I can buy stuff that is the right size, no more quarto or foolscap.

 

I hate to tell you this but they crashed one of the Mars lander's because of confusion between Metric and Imperial Units.

 

Those weren't mechanics.

 

Who said they were ... your post was responding to a general question on the metric system. Just because mechanics (although they were mechanical engineers) have been using the metric system ... the Imperial system still is in use - and it is not nearly as good a system as the metric system. (Such that everyone else in the world has gone metric for almost everything)

 

I referred to mechanic and you replied "they". The people I was speaking of did not crash anything into Mars. The "confusion" you refer to had nothing to do with one being better than the other. It was because one team used one and a different team used the other. It is just as easy to say the metric team caused the crash because they used the wrong measurement as it is the imperial team.

 

Not if you know anything about science

 

Leave it to you to fail to read the post correctly.

 

The metric system has never landed a man on the moon...