Currently, the stimulus package is being reconciled by a committee appointed
from the House and Senate.
This committee is made up of 10 members and in order to get metric into the
package we need to contact them before the bill is reintroduced into the house.
The best way to do this is a personal phone call followed by a fax or email.
Please do this as soon as you can and pass this note on to your friends and
family.
Here's the contact details:
House:
Senate:
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Talking points:
- Moving to metric would provide a solid stimulus for the economy and get rid of the dual measurement drag for the future.
- We can improve exports if we use the measurement system everyone else expects (and there are many countries, of which the number is increasing, that forbid non-metric measurements for labeling and sometimes entirely).
- Education has enough issues without having to deal with multiple measurement systems.
- We can no longer afford to waste money just to be different. Examples include $360 million on a mars probe which crashed because of a measurement mix up, $25,000 on carbon credits for congress because they attempted to purchase in customary tons instead of the global market standard of metric tonnes.
Requests:
- Require that new infrastructure built with the stimulus package is done exclusively using metric measures
- An joint industry/government board be setup to oversee the conversion to metric
- That we have a solid plan by the end of the year that specifies how we will be 95% metric within 5 years and 100% metric in 10 years.
- Government departments that have had a plan to fo metric in the past implement that plan within 2 years if they have not done so already. Departments that have flipped between the two systems must be fully metric by the end of 2010.
- Education requirements be changed to teach metric exclusively. Get rid of the requirement to teach customary units.
Calls for metrication in the news:
