Date:         Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:50:21 -0400
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: The Metric Dollar - LVC
Comments: To: VW Doka <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
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Hi Jeff,

If you'd switched to the metric system in the 70's you'd have known that:

1 mile = 1.62 Kilometers.

1 km = 0.62 miles.


Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
www.busesofthecorn.com
www.pottsfamily.ca


VW Doka wrote:
> So, I'm sitting here at my desk getting all depressed because I have to send
> a bunch of money over to the Fatherland to pay for Vanagon parts, vehicles,
> etc., when I realized that we now have a metric dollar:
>
> 1 mile = .62'ish kilometers
>
> 1 dollar = .63'ish euros
>
> Damn!  If we would've just stayed the course back in the '70s and switched
> to the metric system, the exchange rate would be 1 to 1...
>
> Unfortunately, just like nobody else in the world wants to measure something
> in 64ths of an inch, nobody wants any SAE dollars.  Unless they're visiting
> Disneyland.
>
> It's amazing how much more Vanagon parts are costing these days.  The price
> stays the same when I get a quote from my vendors in Germany, but by the
> time it arrives on our shores, it costs 5% or 10% more than last time.
>
> At this rate, we'll become a manufacturing economy again, except the
> companies will be owned by China and everything will get exported to some
> country who's money is worth a damn.
>
> Okay... I'm done ranting.  Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
>
> Happy, happy, joy, joy,
>
> Jeff
>


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