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Title: Gas And Meter Metrics
Author: L. J. Kemp
Source: American Gas Association 1982
Year Published: 1982
Abstract: This year we will see the demise of the U.S. Metric Board and the Federal Metrication Educational Grants Program. Many people are hailing this as an indication that the current adminstration is anti-metric and the beginning of the end of the current U.S. metrication effort. This celebration is highly premature, for the current administration is not anti-metric. Even if it were, the tremendous scope and momentum of the movement could no more than be temporarily slowed. The U.S. is going to fully adopt the SI Metric System and it will be within many of your working lifetimes. The first significant U.S. gas industry metrication activity occurred in the early 1970s, and was triggered by the adoption of format metrication programs in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Realizing that this would leave the U.S. as virtually the sole non-metric survivor in a tnetric world, the American Gas Association commissioned a study by Battelle to provide for additional insight on the ramifications of metrication for the gas industry. This study was the major basis for early industry thought and planning.

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