As a fiscal conservative, engineer, and professor, I see tremendous value in switching to the metric (SI) standard for all US educational and business operations. We waste money and hamper international trade due to maintaining the antiquated and confusing US Customary System (USCS). If other English-speaking countries can make the switch in a relatively short period of time, so can the USA. I was a graduate student researcher at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in the mid to late ‘90s when we were going to make the switch for our nation’s roads and it go killed in the TEA21 Act. Let’s not be halfhearted, but rather, make the switch to metric (SI) in short period of time (say 5 years) across the board for the USA. We can do it if the UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland can. Americans are a can-do people!