[Fyron]

*looks around*

Lots of road signs in english measurements with none metric here, even brand new ones by the new freeway.

I did not say that the scientific community had not switched over, or that most products have both measurements on them.

There are a lot of permanent items around the country that would have to be switched over, which is where the costs comes in. Printing food labels and such in just metric would not cost anything extra, and that is not what I was talking about at all. You also have to pay costs in reforming the education system to totally phase out the english system and do everything in metrics. Metric measurements are covered, yes, but not well until the higher grade levels (high school science classes and such). New text books, new lesson plans, etc. Have to totally revise real estate and such too, as that is all done in the english system. Road building is done in the english system. There are a huge number of objects and concepts that still have to be converted over to metrics.