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[Jim Lynch]

My 83 GMC van  was a mixture.  It was made in Canada.

On 01/26/2016 05:33 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
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> My 1989 Ford is metric. I think they /Fords/ are metric for quite a while.
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> On Jan 26, 2016 2:21 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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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>     James P. Kinney III
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>     gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
>     own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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