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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8811829" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Wrong. Quite a few are still ETM. Look at the text of the gasoline taxes...[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:4041%20edition<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />relim)[/URL]Now, that the US gallon has a definition in law measured in liters does not make the gallon a metric unit. (Tho' there was a minor push at one point to make the US Gal into a 4 liter unit, rather than the 3.something it is.)None of the speed limits are in metric. None of the roadway laws I've read, either - all are in US version of ETM. That's because traffic signage and laws are explicitly exempted from the 1975 metrication act. (truck weights are also exempted elsewhere.) Many federal laws haven't been changed, and predate the metrication act.&nbsp; [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section109&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim[/URL]Until 2000, even the federal plans didn't need to be metric.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8811829, member: 6779310"] Wrong. Quite a few are still ETM. Look at the text of the gasoline taxes... [URL unfurl="true"]https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:4041%20edition:prelim)[/URL] Now, that the US gallon has a definition in law measured in liters does not make the gallon a metric unit. (Tho' there was a minor push at one point to make the US Gal into a 4 liter unit, rather than the 3.something it is.) None of the speed limits are in metric. None of the roadway laws I've read, either - all are in US version of ETM. That's because traffic signage and laws are explicitly exempted from the 1975 metrication act. (truck weights are also exempted elsewhere.) Many federal laws haven't been changed, and predate the metrication act. [URL unfurl="true"]https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section109&num=0&edition=prelim[/URL] Until 2000, even the federal plans didn't need to be metric. [/QUOTE]

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