https://freerepublic.com/tag/metrication/ en-us Fri, 8 May 2026 00:51:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378223/posts …Most other nations dutifully adopted SI, changing road signs and packaging and teaching the metric system in schools. Even the United Kingdom, which had lagged for years, mostly embraced the system in an effort to keep pace with other European Union nations. (Since the U.K. left the EU, metric opponents there have argued the nation should stop using metric units, a controversial proposition that has yet to be adopted.) Despite international adoption and increasing federal policy encouraging the use of metric units, the U.S. continued to drag its feet. Resistance was fueled in part by industrialists who argued the system... National Geographic https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378223/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 00:51:42 GMT