Letter: Metric system makes lots of sense

There has been a slow quiet insurrection occurring in the United States. Very slowly mechanics and technicians have shifted to the metric system. Bicycle wheel bolts are most likely to be 14mm rather than half inch. Chemistry classes in high school use 250ml and 500ml beakers, no cups and pints.

Somehow, the beauty of the metric system was missed on Americans. In the metric Celsius, water freezes at zero degrees and boils at 100 degrees, a cubic centimeter of water weighs 1 gram, a cubic centimeter is a milliliter (we have put length and volume together, how beautiful). A thousand millimeters is a meter, a thousand meters is a kilometer (a klik in military talk, and our military uses it).

So, if England, originators of the pound foot system, have given it up as archaic, and most of America's military and science are sold on the metric system, why is it still the official unit of measure?

I sat at the table of my Midwest relatives once and heard them thump the table: "If the rest of the world wants to do trade with us, they can damn will learn our system." There you have it; it comes down to legislative fear of the electorate. Kinda like climate change deniers.