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The fact is, full metric implementation in the U.S. is never going to happen. The biggest obstacles to that being things that have been woven into the American landscape that would be cost prohibitive to change.
^^^this
in addition to all the good reasons scarpy listed, think about all the screws, bolts, and whatever in the infrastructure all over the country that are measured in the English system and use tool built to those specs.
reminds me of the story of the space shuttle jet's rocket boosters being a certain size because of the average width of two horses in Roman times...