[AT] Spam> Re: metric system

[Cecil Bearden]

4.54 litres per gallon must be an imperial gallon!!!!  Another little 
difference.. A regular gallon here is 3.8 litres..

Cecil in OKla

Ralph Goff wrote:
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> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:16 AM
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> Mattias, the reason folks here are so resistant to metric is that everything
> we have is in the english system and the coversions are hard to do.  Once
> you start to work in Metric it is much easier to use and gets exponentially
> easier once you get into things like physics and have to deal with mass
> units and that pesky little fellow called gravity.
> 
> Charlie we in Canada have had to deal with the metric system for something 
> like 40 years now and I think we have developed a sort of combined system on 
> the farm. The biggest obstacle in my opinion is that all our land was 
> surveyed in the 1800s using the imperial (english) system. A section of land 
> was one mile square and contained 640 acres. I'm not going to get out my 
> calculator to see how many kilometres around or how many hectares are in a 
> section. Roads are a mile apart east and west, 2 miles apart going north and 
> south and I don't see that changing any time soon as it hard enough to 
> maintain the roads we have without tearing them down and relocating them .
> Grain prices are given in both bushels and tonnes and I'd say bushels are 
> still the most used measure. We buy our fuel and chemical in litres but know 
> that there are 4.54 of them in a gallon. I guess a dollar per litre doesn't 
> sound quite as bad as $4.54 per gallon for gas. We end up spraying 
> herbicides in litres per acre, a combination of two systems that we have 
> adapted to.
> I think most of us still relate more to how many miles per gallon our 
> vehicle gets rather than how many kilometres per litre.
> I still swear every time I encounter a metric bolt or fitting and have to 
> pick up a metric wrench to deal with it. I think possibly when our "boomer" 
> generation disappears maybe the metric system will become more predomiinant. 
> Until then I'll keep looking at the farenheit side of my thermometer so I 
> can brag to you guys down south just how cold it is here. :-)
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
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