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[Boris Borisov]

My 1989 Ford is metric. I think they /Fords/ are metric for quite a while.
On Jan 26, 2016 2:21 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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