To
James "Jim" H. Webb Jr.
Senator, United States of America
144 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC
From
Trevor Owens
Burke, Virginia
Date
March 31, 2009, 12:47 pm
Grievance
We have a clumsy, entangled, confusing measuring system! And it not only confuses the rest of the world - no, it perplexes Americans themselves!
If you go to buy carpeting, and you need 100 square feet, the carpet costs $10 per square yard, could you, even given these simple numbers, ever figure out how much you'll pay? Which is more, 2 quarts, 5 pints or 36 fl oz? How many pints are in a gallon? How many pounds are 200 ounces? Which drill is the larger - the 13/64, the 1/4 or the 5/32? Two cities on a map are 10 inches apart - what is their real world distance?
Please, let the United States join the rest of the world and switch to the metric system today!!
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