As someone who spent their working life in manufacturing, specifically aluminum extrusion, I am convinced it makes a huge amount of sense for us to go with the simpler and universally accepted metric system. As an exporter of finished extrusion, we were required to duplicate many product groups in order to compete. This carried huge costs which seriously degraded our profitability and marketability. In sticking with the English system we unnecessarily hobble our ability to compete internationally.
On the other hand, we are in a position to fill the needs of Liberia, the only other nation on the planet who is stuck in the old English system.
