There’s a reason why the US doesn’t use the metric system

I’m British. I use the metric system all the time in my everyday life in the UK and pretty much everyone else in the world does too. I’ve lived in the US for a few months now and was surprised how much of a pain everyday measurements can be. <br><br>Gas is sold in terms of miles per gallon and degrees Celsius is now known as degrees Fahrenheit. Even when quantities are measured in kilograms, liters and miles, it’s usually accompanied with a footnote saying ‘note: this quantity is also equivalent to [quantity in imperial measure].’ <br><br>Even worse, imperial measurements are used for everyday things in the news. I was in the lab the other day and a news channel came on with a report about the recent heatwave. Of course, you would expect the presenter to mention the peak temperature. Instead the presenter said: ‘it reached a sizzling 103.5 degrees Fahrenheit today. That’s 103.5 degrees fahrenheit, mind you, not 359.79 degrees Celsius’. The lab full of American citizens laughed. A random news presenter thought that by not pointing out the equivalence, people would get confused between two measurements of temperature. Why would a temperature of 100 degrees be the same as 373 degrees? Absolute madness!