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[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 13:55 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Back when they went metric on liquor, it would have been natural to make 
> a 2 liter bottle to replace the old half gallon.  But no, they decided 
> to make it a 1.75 liter bottle (59+ oz) and charge the same as the old 
> half gallon, thus pushing a 10% increase without doing a thing.  Same 
> for quarts, they went with the 750 ml instead of the more logical 1 
> liter bottle.  Eventually many companies came out with a liter bottle at 
> an inflated price.  Liquor companies loved metrication.
> 

So did the coffee packers. Used to be a 1lb package that turned into a
12oz package at about the same price.
We don't use metric now because the auto industry yelled it bankrupt
them to convert. Hmm. Didn't we bail out a few? Don't they all use
metric now anyway? My "Made in the USA" Saturn Vue has lots of metric
bolts.
> On 01/26/2016 01:21 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > With their liters not only is it not cheaper it is quite a bit
> > more 
> > expensive.   I’ve often wondered why the oil companies in America 
> > haven’t gotten together to try to force liters on us so they can
> > start 
> > incrementing the price without a noticing. 
> 
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